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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Army in the northwest. (search)
Buckhannon by a portion of the force under his command: Camp Garnett, June 28, 1861. Gen. Garnett, Com'g. forces N. W. Va. I have the honor to report that, in obedience to your orders, I left this camp for Buckhannon on the 26th instant, with a force amounting in all to three hundred men, and made a march of 18 miles, encamping for the night five miles east of Buckhannon. Scouts were sent out on all the roads leading from our camps or from Buckhannon in the direction of Phillippi or Clarksburg. About 1 o'clock the scouts on the road leading to Buckhannon, 10 in number, having advanced within ½ miles of the town to guard a mill, (grinding meal for us,) were fired upon by a party of Union men armed with rifles, and numbering, as we afterwards learned, about twenty-five men, under the command of Col. Henry F. Westfall. So far as we could learn, there was no damage done by either party, the enemy being ambushed in a thick wood in an unapproachable position. On the 2
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway (search)
are in the vicinity. Telegraphic communication is being established to this place. A battle must take place within a few days. Thus far there has been no fighting in this region although a battle has been reported, on what every one regarded as good authority. At least fifty Secessionists were brought before General Rosecrans yesterday. Nearly all were discharged on taking the oath. Another skirmish. [Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial.] Camp. Phillippi, via Webster, July 2.--On Saturday two companies, Capt. Miller's, Ohio 15th, and Capt. Donnelly's, 1st Virginia, left Rowlesburg to protect the polls of an election held in the vicinity of Tucker county, for Delegates to the House of Delegates, to meet in Wheeling. They heard that eighty rebel cavalry were advancing upon them, and ambuscaded in Virginia form. The rebels discovered it before more than nine of their number had entered the trap, when a fire was opened. Private Smith, in Mi