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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., McClellan in West Virginia. (search)
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad a little west of Grafton, the crossing of the Monongahela River, where the tiry from General Scott whether the enemy's force at Grafton could be counteracted. The dispatch directed McCl forward by rail from Indianapolis. Morris reached Grafton on the 1st of June, and was intrusted with the commired southward to Philippi, about thirty miles from Grafton. Morris approved the plan, but enlarged it by send by Philippi, and afterward crosses the railroad at Grafton. The Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike divides at rson on the 22d of June, and on the 23d issued from Grafton a proclamation to the inhabitants. He had graduallrom a photograph. of the turnpike. Before leaving Grafton the rumors he heard had made him estimate Garnett'sut McClellan had sent a dispatch to General Hill at Grafton, to collect the garrisons along the railway and blod. Hill himself hastened with the first train from Grafton to Oakland with about 500 men and 3 cannon, reache