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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
the mountainous region. Two unimportant engagements, one in the vicinity of the Ohio and the other near Cheat Mountain, alone disturbed the quiet which winter imposed upon the belligerents in Western Virginia. The first took place on the 9th of November at Guyandotte, a large village situated at the mouth of the river of that name in Ohio. That portion of Western Virginia lying south of the Great Kanawha had always been abandoned to small hostile bands, who carried on a real guerilla warfaintention, seized the schooner Royal Yacht, which was also armed as a privateer, and were able to set her on fire before leaving. This expedition, which gave the Federal navy a few prisoners, cost them seven men. At the same period, the 9th of November, a slight engagement took place in the estuary of the Rappahannock. A Federal transport-ship having run aground at Corrotowan Creek, the Confederates were going to seize her, when a detachment from the cruiser Cambridge set her on fire, aft