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The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Western Virginia Geography. (search)
te Sulphur Springs to Cincinnati and to Kentucky, on the route pursued by Lewis and his army in 1774, on their way to fight the Indians at Point Pleasant, where Logan was killed. In short, your course from Staunton to the mouth of Gauley, near which Generals Floyd and Wise are operating, is due West; whereas the course from Staunton to Beverly and Cheat Mountain, where Gens. Lee and Loring are operating, is almost due North. From the mouth of Gauley to Beverly, from the Hawk's Nest to Rich Mountain, is a very long distance, more than a hundred miles, the way obstructed by the most stupendous mountains in the State, and marked by no direct road. If Professor Lowe could take the Yankee news-writers up in his balloon, and show them the distance and the character of country intervening between the counties of Randolph and of Fayette, those writers never would again confound the movements of our armies on the Sewell and the Cheat Mountains. The importance of the movements of Gen.
The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward. (search)
From Norfolk, [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Norfolk, Aug. 28th, 1861. The steamer Kahukee, whose detention at Old Point I mentioned in my last, returned to the city last evening at 7 o'clock. Twenty-three of the prisoners taken by the Federal troops at Rich Mountain came up from the fort in the steamer and were comfortably quartered at the Atlantic Hotel. They were liberated on parole. Several of them were badly wounded. One young man lost a leg, which was amputated above the knee, and two or three lost each an arm. Considerable anxiety is manifested by our citizens to see the liberated prisoners and to hear their statements relative to the Rich Mountain fight, their capture, imprisonment, treatment, &c. The detention of the boat seems to have been owing to unnecessary ceremony and a lack of prompt attention — some say competency on the part of the Federal officers; one of whom, I also learn, used impertinent language when the boat arrived at the fort, bu