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"Cumberland Mountains" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/G00018164, (accessed May 20, 2025).

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The Cumberland Mountains extend from the escarpment eastward to the Big Sandy River and its Tug Fork tributary, which form the boundary between Kentucky and West Virginia; northward to the Ohio River downstream from Ashland; and southeastward to the crests of Cumberland Mountain and Pine Mountain, where the boundary between Virginia and Kentucky was drawn.

William A. Withington, " Cumberland Mountain(s)" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 247.

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