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The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Francis S. Bartow. (search)
s of the troops of General Garnett's command since I last wrote you, and I now merely write to give a true and accurate statement of the retreat and death of General Garnett--a statement which I defy any one to question, and to which those high in authority will willingly subscribe. I would have given you the particulars before, but having hard and severe duty to perform, I was not able to do so. We had been skirmishing with the enemy a week at Laurel Hill, when, on Thursday evening, 11th July, we received an order from General Garnett to prepare provisions for a two days march shortly after which we were directed to strike our tents, and cook up our line of march for Beverly, a distance of sixteen miles, which place we came within three miles of, when we found that a very formidable blockade had been erected, which we could not pass, and, therefore, had to march back on the route we had previously come, to a road that led to the Northeast, towards St. George, in Tucker county, w