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The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], The sad accident at Wilmington . (search)
(Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch)
movements of the enemy near Leesburg — skirmishes, &c., &c.
White Sulphur Springs, Va., February 13th, 1862.
Presuming that you would like to hear occasionally from this section, I send you a few notes.
We have a good deal of excitement here of late.
A short time since, the enemy supposing that they would have an easy time, marched with some three hundred cavalry to attack Lewisburg, but after getting within fourteen miles of the place they discovered our scouts and immediately beat a retreat in double-quick time back to Gauley Bridge.
We have since learned that their instructions were not to burn the place, but to plunder the stores and private dwellings of their most valuable property and destroy the balance.
The reason assigned for not burning the town was that they wished to preserve it to quarter their troops in when they commenced their spring campaign!
Col. A. W. Reynolds, then commending this department, mar