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The Daily Dispatch: September 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hoarded specie. (search)
The Federal and rebel forces at Cheat Mountain.
--Owing to the recent skirmishing at Cheat Mountain, it will not be uninteresting for our readers to know the number of our forces and their locality on that mountain.
At Beverly are the First Virginia Regiment and Sixth Ohio; at Huttonsville, the next station south of east from Beverly, are the 13th and 17th Indiana Regiments; at Elkwater, on the road leading toward Huntersville, are fortified the 3d Ohio and 15th Indiana; and eighteen miles from Elkwater are 6,000 rebel troops, under Col. Loring.
On the other road from Huttonsville, leading toward Monterey and Staunton over Cheat Mountain, and on its top are fortified the 14th Indiana, 24th and 25th Ohio, and Loomis's Battery of Flying Artillery. Fifteen miles from this fortification, is General Lee with 9,000 men. Two regiments from this State and three from Indiana are to be moved to-day and to-morrow to General Reynolds's assistance.
One of the Indiana regiments passes throu
The New programme for Western Virginia.
--It is clear that the "forward movement" of General Lee from the direction of Huntersville and Monterey has been blocked by the judicious fortifications of the enemy, and by the superior numbers of his strongly posted forces.
It is plain that some other line of march must be adopted, the camp of Gen. Floyd, beyond Lewisburg at Meadow Bluff, to look after operations in that field.
He is to be followed by several thousand of his troops from Huntersville.
The Government has also dispatched all the regiments available at Lynchburg to the reinforcement of General Floyd; insomuch, that if a fight does not come of hall have on that line of operations, by the end of this week, nearly twelve thousand men, counting the sick and the well, exclusive of General Lee's army from Huntersville.
These circumstances show very plainly that the Government has resolved upon a new programme for Western Virginia, which contemplates a forward movement,
The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hospital supplies for the Northwest . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Another account of the battle on Greenbrier River . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Domestic Resources of Virginia . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Skirmish at Tallow Knob. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)