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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
f artillery, temporarily commanded by Colonel Morrison, was at Albany, a small village on the frontier of Tennessee. Colonel Chenault, with his regiment and Cluke's, was watching from Monticello the crossings of the Cumberland. During the night of trter pursued his way toward Monticello with three regiments of cavalry and five of infantry, two of which were mounted. Chenault, at the first notice of his approach, very imprudently caused a message to be sent to Morrison stating that he had now tn the left, to Jamestown, Tennessee: at about six or seven miles from Monticello a cross-road connects these two roads. Chenault, being hotly pursued by Carter, took the first, and finally halted in a very strong position near the cross-road, along ther road. Fortunately for him, he met with a party of Federals, which decided him to stop in time and endeavor to join Chenault by way of the cross-road. But the latter had again abandoned his position after a trifling skirmish, and Morrison found