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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The late Thomas G. Broughton. (search)
er the command of Col. Taliaferro, while General Jackson is commandant of the line. The enemy is strongly fortified on the top of Cheat Mountain, and have the sides of the road effectually blockaded, so that to attack them our forces will have to keep to the main road, which has planted in it a number of cannon of large calibre, and bearing directly down the road. A brigade, consisting of Col. Fulkerson's Regiment, Major Rogers' Battalion, the remnant of the Twenty-third Regiment, and Shumaker's Artillery, under the command of Colonel Taliaferro, on Monday morning advanced to within three miles of their post, drove their pickets in, and then waited for hours for the enemy to attack us; but they feared to move out of their stronghold. We returned to camp, having marched about twenty-two miles and waded through several streams of water. We hear numerous rumors of the movements of Gens. Wise and Floyd, but nothing of a reliable character. The latest report is that they have e