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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Army of the Kanawha. (search)
rburn, is fast regaining the strength it lost before leaving Sewell Mountain. Heth's 45th has not yet reached here. The 20th Mississippi has not yet reached this point, but is expected every day. Its gallant commander, Col. Russell, who is most highly valued as an officer, is absent, sick. I learn that the regiment is in what may be said, under all the circumstances, to be excellent condition. Besides this, there are two other regiments of Southern troops here — the 13th Georgia and Phillips's Georgia Legion. I take it for granted that these Southern troops will all be ordered to Charleston, or to some other Eastern point. It seems unjust to keep them in this mountain region, in a climate to which they are not accustomed. The true policy of the Government is to leave the defence of Western Virginia to Western Virginia troops. The establishment of a few fortified camps as pointsd' appui, where a thousand or two men can stand against five times their number, and where provisi