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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 2 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 4: military operations in Western Virginia, and on the sea-coast (search)
e retreat, he escaped your grasp, you have the substantial fruits. of victory. Western Virginia belongs to herself, and the invader is expelled from her soil. In the name of our Commander-in-Chief, and in my own, I thank you. Thus ended the campaigns in the Kanawha Valley. On the 10th of November, a most unhappy event occurred in the extreme southwestern portion of Virginia. The village of Guyandotte, on the Ohio River, near the Kentucky line, was held by a small Union forceunder R. V. Whaley, a loyal Virginian, commanding the Ninth Virginia Regiment, who had a recruiting station there. At eight o'clock in the evening, a guerrilla chief, named Albert G. Jenkins, who, with his mounted men,. had been for some time carrying on a distressing warfare in that region, dashed into the little village, surprised the Union force, and made over 100 of them prisoners. They killed every man who resisted. With prisoners and plunder, Jenkins fled the next morning. It was reported that the
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Northern Congress.--the Pan-Handle traitors Assume to represent Virginia! (search)
The Northern Congress.--the Pan-Handle traitors Assume to represent Virginia! In the Washington House of Representatives, on the 4th inst., after the election of Galusha A. Grow to the Speakership, the following individuals were sworn in as Representatives of the State of Virginia: John S. Carlile, C. H. Upton, R. V. Whaley, G. Pendleton and W. G. Brown. We copy from the proceedings as they afterwards transpired: Mr. Cox, of Ohio, objected to Mr. Charles H. Upton being recognized as a member of this body. He was in possession of authentic and perfectly reliable information that Mr. Upton--who is a native of New Hampshire--was and is a citizen of Ohio, where he but recently published a newspaper, and where, so late as last fall, he voted. Mr. Upton's right to vote in Ohio had than been challenged, but he asserted his citizenship in that State, and was allowed to vote. Mr. Cox said he had no other object in agitating this question than to vindicate the decency and dignity