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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 99.-battle of Scarytown, Va. Fought July 17 (search)
Gibbs occupied a prominent position in the fight, though we are unable to learn exactly what part he took in it.--Cincinnati Commercial, July 22. Cincinnati Gazette account. camp Poco, Kanawha River, Thurs. day night, July 18, 1861. I embrace the earliest opportunity to give you the particulars of this ill-starred affair. Information having been received at headquarters that the rebels were preparing to make a stand at Scaryville, eight or ten miles above this point, where Scary Creek empties into the Kanawha, Gen. Cox ordered the Twelfth Ohio regiment, Col. Lowe, a portion of two companies of the Twenty-First, the Cleveland Light Artillery, Capt. Cotton, with two rifled six-pounders, and a small cavalry company from Ironton, in all about one thousand men, under the command of Col. Lowe, to proceed up the river by land on a reconnoitring expedition. The instructions to the commanding officer were, that if he found the rebels in a position from which they could be easi
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 10: (search)
61, Brigadier General Henry A. Wise, who was well and favorably known to the people of the Kanawha valley, in his enthusiasm for their defense and confidence in his ability to rally them to resist the threatened invasion of that region, offered his services for that purpose. With a small command, which was to serve as a nucleus to the force he hoped to raise, he was sent thither. His success was as great as could have been reasonably expected, and after the small but brilliant affair on Scary Creek, he prepared to give battle to the enemy then advancing up the Kanawha Valley under General Cox; the defeat of our forces at Laurel Hill, which has been already noticed, uncovered his right flank and endangered his rear, which was open to approach by several roads; he therefore fell back to Lewisburg. Brigadier General John B. Floyd had in the meantime raised a brigade in southwestern Virginia, and advanced to the support of General Wise. Unfortunately, there was a want of concert bet
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Ohio Volunteers. (search)
Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October, 1862. 1st Brigade, Kanawha Division, District of West Virginia, Dept. of the Ohio, to March, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to June, 1863. 2nd Brigade, Scammon's Division, Dept. of West Virginia, to December, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of West Virginia, to April, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry, Division Dept. West Virginia, to July, 1864. Service. Action at Scary Creek, W. Va., July 17, 1861. Battle of Carnifex Ferry September 10. Operations in the Kanawha Valley, W. Va., and New River Region September to November. Gauley River September 12. Wilderness Ferry September 14. Hough's Ferry September 16. Advance to Sewell Mountain September 24. Sewell Mountain September 25. At Hawk's Nest October 10 to November 1. Movement on Cotton Mountain and pursuit of Floyd November 1-18. Laurel Creek November 12 (Co. H ). Duty at Charlesto
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 9: (search)
emely critical. The enemy had already landed considerable forces at Parkersburg and Point Pleasant on the Ohio River, and was rapidly using his superiour facilities for raising troops in the populous States of Ohio and Indiana, and his ample means of transportation by railroad through those States and by the navigation of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, to concentrate a large force in the lower part of the Kanawha Valley. After some desultory movements, and a brilliant affair on Scary Creek, in Putnam County, where Col. Patton with a small force repulsed three Federal regiments, Gen. Wise prepared to give battle to the Federal forces, which, under the command of Gen. Cox, had been largely increased, and which were steadily advancing up the Valley, both by land and water. But the conflict was not to occur. A more formidable danger, from a different direction, menaced the Confederates. The disaster at Rich Mountain — the surrender of Pegram's force, and the retreat northward of Garn
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
Chapter 2: McClellan's invasion the affair at Philippi Rich mountain and Laurel Hill death of Garnett operations about Romney Federal occupation of the Kanawha valley fight at Scary Creek Loring at Cheat mountain. On May 24th, Colonel Porterfield, who, with about 100 men, had been holding the town of Fetterman, fell back to Grafton, and sent Col. J. M. Heck, who had joined him two days before, to Richmond, to report the condition of the little force, half armed and altich I have created between this and Richmond. Cox united his three columns at the mouth of the Pocotaligo, and on the afternoon of the 17th sent Colonel Lowe, with the Twelfth Ohio and two companies of the Twenty-first, to make a landing at Scary creek, where Colonel Patton with about 800 men held a position which commanded the river. Patton had been ordered by Wise to retreat to Bunker Hill, but he gallantly turned back of his own accord and met the enemy's advance. The enemy was better a
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
onfederate States, which met at Richmond, February, 1862. Here he creditably performed his duties, but it was mainly as a daring and chivalrous cavalry officer that he is remembered. He organized a company of mounted men at the beginning of hostilities, and soon gained the general attention by raiding Point Pleasant, in the latter part of June, and making prisoners of a number of prominent gentlemen who were conspicuous in the movement for the separation of the State. In the battle of Scary Creek, July 18th, he saved the day at a critical moment; soon had the command of a colonel, became lieutenant-colonel of the Eighth cavalry regiment, and was recognized as one of the leaders in the military occupation of the Kanawha valley by the Virginia forces. After Wise and Floyd had retired to Greenbrier county he remained in the Guyandotte valley, fighting for his home and the Old Dominion. He was promoted brigadier-general August 5, 1862, and in the latter part of August and the first
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
esistance was met from Wise's advance pickets, and Cox learned that the Confederates were in force some 12 miles further on, at Tyler mountain. Cox decided to await at Pocotalico the coming in of his flanking columns. On the 16th the forward movement of the Second Kentucky (Federal) began at Guyandotte, a few miles beyond which, at Barboursville, a lively skirmish took place with 0. J. Wise's advance cavalry pickets, which fell back, pursued by the Federals, to the force encamped near Scary creek, some 24 miles from Charleston, which, on the afternoon of the 17th, met and repulsed this pursuit. After the engagement at Scary, the Federals crossed the river and encamped on the north side. The next day Wise attacked Cox's advance post with some 800 men of all arms under McCausland, forcing them to retreat to their intrenched camp near the mouth of the Pocotalico. The retreat of Garnett's forces from Rich mountain and Laurel hill, and the advance of McClellan to Cheat mountain,
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
Routes and positions: Army of the Tennessee 69, 5 Fifteenth Corps 70, 1 Sherman's army 101, 21 Twentieth Corps 71, 1-71, 11 Savannah, Dec. 11-21, 1864 69, 4; 70, 2, 70, 3; 71, 10, 71, 11; 90, 8 Savannah River 5, 3, 5, 4; 80, 1; 91, 4; 117, 1; 118, 1; 120, 2; 133, 3; 135-A; 135-B, 5, 135-A; 135-B, 6; 143; 144, E10; 145, A12 Mouth of, and adjacent islands 5, 4; 135-B, 6 Sawyer, Battery, Va.: View 125, 1 Scarborough, Ga. 71, 8 Scary Creek, W. Va. 140, H7 Fort Scott, Kans. 47, 1; 66, 1; 119, 1; 135-A; 161, G9; 171 Scottsborough, Ala. 24, 3; 61, 9; 117, 1; 118, 1 Scott's Creek, Va. 93, 1 Scottsville, Ala. 149, E8 Scottsville, Ky. 118, 1; 150, E7 Scullyville, Indian Territory 119, 1; 159, A9 Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad 93, 1; 117, 1; 138, B8 Searcy, Ark. 47, 1; 135-A; 154, A5; 171 Secessionville, S. C.: Engagement, June 16, 1862 23, 6, 23, 7 Sedalia, Mo. 47, 1;
The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward. (search)
[correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Wise's Legion, West of Lewisburg, August 21st, 1861. Once more, with faces turned to the setting of the sun, we march to the rescue of the Kanawha Valley. Our evacuation of Charleston on the 24th of July, just one week after the victory of Scary Creek, was a movement quite unexpected and some what misunderstood by the inhabitants of the valley. Left exposed, at the mercy of an invading foe, they could not be expected fully to appreciate the necessity for the retrograde movement, or the military propriety of keeping it strictly secret until every preparation for its immediate execution had been made. The surprise and mortification of the citizens of Charleston can be better imagined than described, when, with the booming of the enemy's cannon already in hearing, and their heavy columns almost in sight, our own army slowly took up its march through the streets with our back to the enemy and our faces homeward to the East. The old