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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Mecklenburg. (search)
their fortifications for shelter in the houses at Bolivar and Harper's Ferry. That charge for the distance of near one mile up the hill, must have been a grand move to test the and courage of the troops. It was equal to any charge in history. The officers and men pressing up the mountain, driving the enemy before them from their strong fortifications, was a grand sight. "The writer (sixty years of age) was with the cavalry that moved to the right, with a company of infantry from Rockingham. We crossed the valley to the railroad at Keye's switch or depot, then on the heights, and thence with cavalry and the company of infantry, descended the mountain to the railroad through the narrow pass at Bulls falls to the Gulf mills; then up the mill road in the mountain to Bolivar. We captured some citizens on the hills giving signals to the enemy, and drove in a body of pickets. "On reaching the open ground of Bolivar, in the rear of the enemy's fortifications, we expected to c