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The Daily Dispatch: September 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
Free Wise's lesson. --We have authentic intelligence from Wise's Legion, in a letter dated Hawk's Nest, September 5. On the Sunday previous, at an early hour, General Wise marched, in obedience to orders, in the direction of General Floyd's camp, ten miles north of Hawk's Nest. When very near the camp of General E., he wasHawk's Nest. When very near the camp of General E., he was ordered to countermarch, which he promptly obeyed. On Monday morning, the main body of General Wise's command advanced upon the enemy, who were found strongly entrenched in the gorge of a mountain some four miles from Gauley Bridge. General Wise led the advance guard, and, on receiving their fire, charged upon the cowardly miscre. Trusting in the God of battles, we have no fears as to the issue of an engagement. In a notice in the Dispatch of the skirmish with the Yankees at the "Hawk's Nest," it was stated that we lost one man killed. That is a mistake; one was badly wounded and supposed at the time mortally, but is recovering and now out of dange