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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Army of the Kanawha. (search)
he Kanawha. Southern troops ordered to Charleston — Defenses of Western Virginia. &c. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Dublin Depot, Pulaski Co., Dec. 10, 1861 On my way down from the West yesterday I learned that Gen. Floyd's army had arrived and were encamped at this point; and I determined to stop over a day to see a little of camp life. Before it was ordered here, this army had been encamped for a few days near the New river, in Monroe county, at an abandoned forces intended to operate in the Kanawha valley to get along without regular transportation; for sufficient provisions could be carried for a ten day's expedition in haversacks and on pack-saddles I understand that it was the object of General Floyd, in falling back from Fayette county to Peterstown, simply to get to bread and meat, which the condition of the roads rendered it impossible to transport in wagons. In one sense of the word, he designed to make his winter quarters in Peterst