... pursued by the columns, which had joined in the main street of Philippi, for about two miles, when the insurgents, abandoning their baggage-train, escaped, and halted only at Beverly, the capital of Randolph County , twenty-five or thirty miles farther up Tygart's Valley. Porterfield's troops, about fifteen hundred strong, were one-third cavalry, and all were fresh. among the spoils of victory were the command...