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The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the Alleghany mountains. (search)
From the Alleghany mountains. withdrawal of troops from camp Bartow — Severe weather — rumors of an approach of the enemy. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Camp Alleghany, Nov. 24, 1861. Day before yesterday our forces at Camp Bartow withdrew eastward, part stopping here on top of the Alleghany mountains, and the rest taking up quarters in Crab Bottom and Monterey. It is snowing; the wind is blowing a hurricane; it is as cold as the North Pole; and of all the dreary and desolate places on earth, this is entitled to the palm. Yet, the boys are in spirits, their loud halloo, jocund laughter, and occasionally the enlivening sound of the fiddle bravely throwing off Dixie to the echo of these hills, break on my ear above the flapping of tents and the whistling of the tempest. Yesterday a report flew threw camp that the enemy were in pursuit of us and within a mile. The troops, though wholly unexpecting an attack, speedily formed in line-of battle