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Cumberland Gap   /kˈəmbərlənd gæp/   Listen
Cumberland Gap

noun
1.
A pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west.





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"Cumberland Gap" Quotes from Famous Books



... this Boone took no conspicuous part in the settlement of Kentucky. The expedition with which he left the Yadkin in 1773 met with a terrible disaster near Cumberland Gap, in which his eldest son and five more young men were killed by Indians, and the whole party, discouraged by the blow, retired to the safer region of Clinch River. In the mean time the dauntless speculator Richard Henderson had begun his occupation with all the pomp of viceroyalty. Harrodsburg ...
— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay
... and on the refusal of any pilot to undertake the perilous voyage, because of a freshet that had swelled the river, he stood at the helm for forty-eight hours and piloted the craft through the dangerous channel. In order to surprise Marshall, then intrenched in Cumberland Gap, Garfield marched his soldiers 100 miles in four days through a blinding snowstorm. Returning to Louisville, he found that General Buell was away; overtook him at Columbia, Tenn., and was assigned to the command of the Twentieth Brigade. Reached Shiloh in time to take part in the second day's fight. ...
— Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. VIII.: James A. Garfield • James D. Richardson
... Columbus. When Lt. Cribbs did so, Gen. Bragg furnished him one of his ambulances and ordered him to Tuscaloosa ahead, to stay until recovered. John A. Caldwell was sent with him. He was down with camp fever for some weeks and reached the battery again near Cumberland Gap, after ...
— A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. • George Little


Words linked to "Cumberland Gap" :   Cumberland Plateau, Cumberland Mountains, pass, mountain pass, notch


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