... early in August, numbered full sixteen thousand men. He placed a strong guard on Buffalo Mountain, at the crossing of the Staunton turnpike, and extended his line northward from the Warm Springs, in Greenbrier County . General Floyd, the late Secretary of War, had, in the mean time, taken chief command of his own and Wise's troops, in the region of the Gauley River. With these two armies acting simultaneously, i...