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The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The traitors. (search)
Doings in the Northwest. --The correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, under date of June 23d, furnishes the subjoined items from Grafton, Va.: The Confeds are getting "sassy." At Phillippi the pickets keep up a constant skirmish, and yesterday one of the guards of an Indiana regiment was killed while on duty. Last night three privates in Company I, Ohio Twentieth, were shot at the first station west of Glover's Gap, where they were guarding the Baltimore and Ohio Road. They o of them, it is feared, mortally wounded. To-day, when the artillery were out practising, but a little way from here, over the northern hills, they were fired into by a mounted scout of the rebels, who had pushed out that far on the road from Phillippi. Some of our Ohio boys are after them, and it is hoped will bring them in. The pickets report this evening that they have been fired upon. Lieut. Hamilton, with ten men of Company K, Ninth Indiana Regiment, went out to-day and captured fi
The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], History of smoking. (search)
te of twenty guns immediately by the towardly devils. On the next day, the 19th, squads of four of our company took possession of the pike, within four miles of Phillippi, and waited patiently, in ambush, for the enemy's scouts and spies. Calvin Renick. Cyrus Creigh, Chas. McClung, Lewis Peyton and Addison Bell composed the adva of them instantly. This caused the sentinels stationed along the road to give the alarm, and in one hour's time our whole Cavalry corps was most in gun-shot of Phillippi. Our company was then divided into squads of four, six and eight, and we concealed ourselves in the brushwood. About six o'clock in the evening a footman came ent of Indiana Volunteers. We brought him to the camp that night, and he is now in the Guard House. He gave us much valuable information relative to matters at Phillippi. The only excuse he gives for volunteering to invade Virginia, is that he was thrown out of employment and had to fight or starve. He says, that the principal
The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], The romance of Mendacitt. (search)
personal daring in the Mexican war. All quiet between this and Cumberland.--The rebels are encamped between Burlington and Laurel Hill, 13 or 14 miles from Phillippi. They are strongly entrenched on both sides of the Beverly Pike, with cannon in position. They have been reinforced, and their strength is variously estimated but everything is now nearly in readiness, and the columns will soon move. Brigadier Generals Morris and Schleich, and probably Gen. McClellan, will advance to Phillippi to morrow. [Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Ga ette.] Clarksburg, Va., June 27--A man has just arrived from Buchanan, who reports a big fight at Laurel Hill. Cannonading has been heard there all day. We also have accounts of another fight at Phillippi. The rebels are in force at several points. In the midst of a thousand rumors flying, it is impossible to get reliable particulars. A soldier was shot five miles out from here to-day. Much excitement prevail
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], A wash for the face. (search)
arkesburg or not, I did not learn. Doubtless you will soon see in the Northern papers a brilliant victory announced at Ripley. What their force at Parkersburg is I am unable to say. Fortunately, Gen. Garnett demands all their attention at Phillippi, and I have no doubt Parkersburg is held only as securing them the railroad, and not as a base of operation in this direction. If Garnett could get around and behind Phillippi, he would rout them; and the thing is not impossible. You needPhillippi, he would rout them; and the thing is not impossible. You need not be surprised to hear of a brilliant victory in that quarter at any moment. L. P. S.--Since writing the above, three more traitors have been brought in to Gen. Wise.--They are from Roane county, and one (Col. S. Ar Roberts) was a member of the Wheeling Convention. They will be handed over to the civil authorities, and indicted for treason, with a count under the new ordinance of the 15th June last. Scouts are out for more such game. L.
The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], A very old young man. (search)
aurel Hill Camp, Barbour co, Va., June 30, 1861. I shall attempt to give your readers a short article from this encampment, which may be of interest to some of them, as we have many Eastern troops among us. The enemy is still holding Phillippi, with a force of about 8,000. The scouting parties of the two forces frequently meet upon the Fairmont and Beverly Turnpike, and several small fights have come off, our party always getting the better of the scrimmages, and have captured some and is seven miles from Beverly, on the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike.-- Col. Heek is an energetic officer, and his descent upon Buchanan may be productive of some good. Buchanan has been in possession of the enemy, but they fell back upon Phillippi upon the advance of Col. Heck. The troops at our encampment (Laurel Hill) are enjoying excellent health. Only two deaths have occurred in the regiment, who have no tents, but have erected comfortable huts of bark and rails, and all of us
The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Extraordinary shooting. (search)
ments now in progress in Western Virginia will remember that the Confederate force has mainly concentrated at Bealington and Laurel Hill, thirteen miles south of Phillippi, on the main road leading through Beverly, Huttonville, the Cheat Mountain Gap, and thence on through the heart of Virginia to Staunton, and the beginning of direhind them men enough to garrison the towns and keep their communications open. The Federal forces, on the other hand, are concentrating at two main points, Phillippi and Clarksburg. When I tell you that, with the exception of the troops absolutely needed to guard the road and hold Grafton, and of one regiment stationed at Cheat river, all the troops in Western Virginia have gone to Phillippi or Clarksburg, you will have little difficulty in comprehending the contemplated movements. In addition to this I may only add that the column from Clarksburg commenced moving yesterday, June 26. A correspondent of the same journal, writing from Clarksburg,
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
The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway (search)
citizens, and were it not for their rights guaranteed them by the Constitution, especially as members of Congress, they would probably be, on adjournment, incarcerated in the jail of this city; for there are parties now there who have said less than Phelps, Valiandigham and Burnett will say on the floor of the United States Congress. The Administration expect two grand battles to-day or to-morrow. One between Gen. Wise's and Gen. McClelland's armies at Huttonsville, forty miles from Phillippi; and the other between the forces of Generals Patterson and Johnston, near Martinsburg. Baltimore Exchange The forces under the respective commanders is believed to be about as follows: McClelland20,020 Wise11,000 Patterson23,000 Johnston16,000 The usurped, or Western Virginia Government, were about to disorganize to-day for want of means. But I believe they have managed to steal a considerable sum from the State proper, which, together with an enormous tax on
The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], R. L. I. Blues. (search)
gs Wise, have as yet received no hurt from the enemy. We know that they are capable of inflicting a great deal if allowed the opportunity. The latest intelligence received from them was that they had been led against 200 of the enemy, (they numbering 120,) and that the latter on seeing them struck a bee line — which we rather suspect to be the true state of the case. P. S.--Since the above was written, we have been informed that a letter has been received in this city from the neighborhood of Phillippi, in which it is stated that in an engagement by Capt. O. Jennings Wise's company with a company of Hessians, the Captain of the Hessian company was killed at the first fire. During the brief but brilliant engagement, nine or ten of the Federalists were killed and twenty-five of them were taken prisoners. If this is a fair sample of the work which will be executed by our gallant men in the Richmond Blues, we shall look for a "harvest of death," in all their future efforts.
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