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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
nhabitants upon whom he was desirous to impose the rule of Mr. Davis. Nevertheless, appreciating the importance of the Baltimore and Ohio railway, he had despatched Colonel Porterfield with fifteen hundred men to take possession of that line at Grafton. On the approach of the Federals, the Confederates abandoned that post and retired to the town of Philippi, farther south. The Unionists, numbering about five thousand men, determined to take Porterfield by surprise, and in order to surround hvalleys, which open on the Upper Potomac. Four thousand of them again occupied Romney, and destroyed the bridge of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway at New Creek; they thus cut off all communication between Wallace and McClellan, who had come to Grafton on the 23d to prepare for the serious campaign, of which West Virginia was to witness the inauguration fifteen days later. But although threatened on all sides, Wallace succeeded in keeping the enemy in check and in maintaining his position.