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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
eached Starkville, and the latter, passing more to the north, had crossed the railroad to reach Aberdeen on the banks of the Tombigbee, and placed himself on the left flank of the Federal column. The, he divided his column. Grierson, with Hepburn's brigade, proceeds south-eastwardly to occupy Aberdeen, and even trusts one detachment on the left bank of the Tombigbee. With his two other brigades only about six miles, pushing slowly before him Colonel Forrest's brigade, which has evacuated Aberdeen on the approach of Grierson. The next day his march is somewhat more rapid; he reaches, at thge of West Point, fifteen miles south of Egypt. Hepburn's brigade, which he has summoned from Aberdeen, is not long in joining him. But he cannot make up for lost time. Forrest has made all his prein this cul-de-sac that Forrest had resolved to stop him. Fearing that the Federals might, from Aberdeen, wish to reach Columbus by the left bank of the Tombigbee, he had caused Bell's brigade, then c