...d drive General Cox, of Ohio, beyond the border, while Lee should scatter the Union army, under General Rosecrans (McClellan's successor), in Northern Virginia, and, planting the Confederate flag at Wheeling , threaten Western Pennsylvania. Floyd took a strong position between Cox and Rosecrans, at Carnifex Ferry, on the Gauley River, just below Meadow Creek, and eight miles from Summersville, the ca...