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d in the mean time the other company were to cross at the lock and come in on the rear, and either capture or drive away our men, and then rush to the Dam and break it, thereby rendering the canal entirely useless. In this they were foiled, and kept at a distance until reinforcements were sent for. One messenger was despatched to Williamsport for artillery, and another sent to this place. But a short time elapsed, when Company B, commanded by Captain Noel, and Company G, commanded by Lieutenant Baldwin, were on their way to meet the enemy, and as the report of the guns were heard in the distance, it gave renewed vigor to those who had already marched to Shepherdstown and returned without a shot at Secesh; and having partaken of a light dinner, were off in another direction, prepared for a heavy conflict with those marauders who attack the unprotected portion of our picket lines. We arrived at Darn 4 just after dark, and it then being too late to see the enemy, and as they had threat
and about ten miles this side of the battle of Greenbrier, on the 3d of October. The intrenched camp of the enemy on Cheat Mountain is about seven miles beyond the Greenbrier River, and therefore seventeen miles west of the scene of the battle on Friday last. The troops of the enemy were supposed to number about five thousand, and supposed also to be under the orders of Gen. Reynolds, the same who commanded at Greenbrier. The troops on our side consisted of two Georgia regiments, Col. J. B. Baldwin's regiment of Virginia troops, and two Virginia battalions — the one commanded by Lieut.-Col. Hansbrough, of Taylor County, the other by Maj. Rogers, of Barbour County. There were also two field-batteries — the one commanded by Capt. Anderson, the other the battery of Capt. Rice. Our whole force numbered about two thousand, and were under the command of Col. Edward Johnson, of the Georgia troops, a native of Chester-field County, Va. It has already been stated that our army had fa