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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc . 199 .-skirmish at Hawk's Nest, Va. , August 20 , 1861 . (search)
Doc. 199.-skirmish at Hawk's Nest, Va., August 20, 1861.
A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer states the following in reference to this affair:
Gentlemen: In your issue of to-day I note the subjoined Yankee telegraphic despatch:--
Cincinnati, August 22, 1861.
A skirmish occurred at Hawk's Nest, in the Kanawha Valley, eight miles beyond, on the 20th.
The Confederates, some four thousand strong, advanced to where the Eleventh Ohio regiment had erected barricades, and were driven back with a loss of fifty killed and a number wounded and taken prisoners.
Our loss was only two slightly wounded and one missing. Our forces captured quite a number of horses and equipments.
I have just returned from General Wise's command, having left there on the night of the 20th, and after the skirmish was over.
Our forces consisted of parts of three cavalry companies, amounting to about one hundred men, and the enemy numbered at least six hundred. Colonel Croghan, of our brig