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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 237 (search)
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225. skirmish at Dam no. 4, Potomac River, December 11, 1861.
Sharpsburg, December 13, 1861.
On the morning of the 11th instant heavy cannonading was heard in the vicinity of Dam No. 4, and about one o'clock P. M. a messenger arrived in haste for reinforcements, stating that the enemy had attacked the pickets and were endeavoring to demolish the Dam, by cannonading.
When the enemy were first seen they appeared to be out on a scouting expedition, and Major Hubler immediately sent twenty-five men to a lock about one mile above the Dam, and so soon as the enemy arrived at that point they commenced firing on our pickets.
They returned the fire, instantly killing four and wounding ten, three mortally.
The enemy then fell back to a house about one mile from the river, when the men remaining at the Dam commenced firing on the house, killing three and wounding several.
At this time the enemy retreated back to the woods, and after waiting some time, Capt. Williams, of Com
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 238 (search)
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226. battle of camp Alleghany, Va., fought December 13, 1861.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial gives the following particulars of the battle.
Cheat Mountain Summit, December 20, 1861.
On Thursday morning, December 12th, the Union troops under command of Brig.-Gen. R. H. Milroy, took up their march for the enemy's camp, which is situated on the top of the Alleghany Mountains, eight and a half miles beyond the Greenbrier River, or what is better known, Camp Bartow.
This Camp Bartow is the Camp at which Gen. Reynolds reconnoitered so effectually October 3d last, and from which the rebels have since fled.
This Camp Bartow, is at a point on the Staunton Pike, called The traveller's repose.
The Union command, consisting of detachments from the Ninth and Thirteenth Indiana, Twenty-fifth and Thirty-second Ohio, Second Virginia regiment, and Bracken's Cavalry, numbered in all about two thousand men. The column reached Camp Bartow about eight o'clock P. M., where t
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 239 (search)
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227. proclamation of Gov. Jackson. December 13, 1861.
Officers and Soldiers of the Missouri State Guard, and Fellow-Citizens:
In the month of June last, after having exhausted every honorable means of averting the calamities of civil war, I called upon the State for fifty thousand volunteers, to drive the ruthless bands of hired invaders from our soil.
Before making that call, I had asked that you might have the privilege of determining, at the polls, in a peaceable manner, you