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The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Washington items. (search)
have made a mistake in sending so large a force in the direction of Monterey and Huttonsville, to be penned up in the Cheat and Valley Mountains, and in sending so small a force in the direction of Lewisburg, to be outnumbered and checked first by Cox, and now by Rosencranz and Cox combined. The possession of the Kanawha Valley would itself have justified the sending of a much larger column in that direction than we have done; and now, the march of Rosencranz due South from Clarksburg against Cox combined. The possession of the Kanawha Valley would itself have justified the sending of a much larger column in that direction than we have done; and now, the march of Rosencranz due South from Clarksburg against Floyd, on the Ganley, has shown that if we had sent to Lewisburg the main portion of troops which went to the vicinity of Hottonsville and Monterey, they could have marched upon Clarksburg and Grafton and the Northwestern Railroad, in that direction, with much more facility than the sequel has shown it can be done by way of the Cheat Moantain, Beverly and Philippi. This is one of those facts which experience only could teach for it was a very natural conclusion adopted by our authorities,
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Washington items. (search)
e have little from our forces in the Northwest, and ting from those in the West. That in the er is in the midst of a struggle disputing the possession of the soil with the minions of the Washington Tyranny. There have in probability occurred before this one or more bloody battles. The public is full of anxiety to hear whatever there is to hear; the hundreds in this region, who have relatives in the armies of Lee, and Floyd, and are pained at the delay in the transession of intelligence from them. We trust that the Department will establish at once a communication between the metropolis in their camps. It would be grateful to the people, and very much benefit our cause. A short telegraph announces that it was at the North that Floyd and Wise could effect a junction, and fall upon Cox. We hardly know what to anticipate. The of the enemy we do not know; but we know the character of our brave soldiers and their leaders, and we are satisfied that they will do their duty.
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrest of a former Marylander in Philadelphia. (search)
Gen. Floyd--the Federalists alarmed. Clarksburg, Va. Sept. 15. --Gen. Floyd left about $10,000 worth of supplies behind him when he retreated. Fears are entertained that he may concentrate his forces with those of Gen. Wise, and attack Gen. Cox.