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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Valley. (search)
mpton Roads of the vandal fleet, is the wish of all true patriots. Yesterday a vote was taken in the different camps on the Amended Constitution, but what the result was I am unable to state. In your edition of the 4th inst., your local editor, in trying to correct some errors, unintentionally falls into others. The battle of Carrick's Ferd, (not Corrick's,) in Tucker county, on Cheat river, (and it is a cheat,) was fought by 260 men of the 23d Virginia Regiment, and one piece of Shumaker's Danville Artillery, under the immediate command of Col. (now Gen.) Wm. B. Taliaferro. The 1st Georgia regiment encountered the enemy earlier in the day at the first crossing of Cheat river. About a mile from Carrick's Ford, Gen. Garnett was killed, having with him a body guard of ten men of the Richmond Sharp Shooters. Gen. Floyd was not in a hundred miles of the fight. Don't detract from the earned reputation of the Northwest army; for they have seen more hardships and fatigue, and