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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 20: commencement of civil War. (search)
May, Governor Letcher wrote a letter to Colonel Porterfield, who was in command of some State troopoved in the direction of Grafton, where Colonel Porterfield was in command, with instructions from ached Buffalo Creek, in Marion County, when Porterfield, thoroughly alarmed, fled from Grafton witho Railway. Word to this effect was sent to Porterfield by the secessionists in Grafton, and thus aBeverly road above Philippi, in the rear of Porterfield, and Dumont was to appear at the same time the column, and then sent her boy to alarm Porterfield. The boy was caught and detained; and while Porterfield's camp was in commotion, on account of the report of the woman's pistol, Dumont's coltaken command of the artillery, and fearing Porterfield might escape unhurt, should there be any deading him out from the hills in the rear of Porterfield's camp, he had brought him from the mountaiographical Engineers, serving on his staff. Porterfield's troops, about fifteen hundred strong, wer[5 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 22: the War on the Potomac and in Western Virginia. (search)
Whilst the Baltimore and Ohio Railway--the great line of communication with the West--was thus held by the National troops, attempts were made by the insurgents to occupy the country in Western Virginia south of it. We have observed that Colonel Porterfield had notified the authorities at Richmond that a large force must be immediately sent into that region, or it would be lost to the Confederacy. See page 494. A plan of campaign in that direction was immediately formed and put in execution. Porterfield was succeeded in command in Northwestern Virginia by General Robert S. Garnett, a meritorious officer, who served on the staff of General Taylor, in Mexico, and was breveted a major for gallantry in the battle of Buena Vista. He made his Headquarters at Beverly, in Randolph County, a pleasant village on a plain, traversed by Tygart's Valley River. It was an important point in operations to prevent McClellan pushing through the gaps of the mountain ranges into the Shenandoah Va