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The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the Kanawha Valley. (search)
From the Kanawha Valley. [Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Wise Legion, Camp Two Mile, Near Charleston, Kanawha Co. July 18th, 1861. The fight which was imminent and expected when I wrote you on Sunday last, did not come off. The enemy advanced up the river until within range of Major George S. Patton's Artillery at the mouth of Coal river, when one well directed salute warned them of the probability of a warmer reception than they had anticipated, and they retired. They landed, however, on both sides of the Kanawha, in number estimated at about 3.000 men. In addition. it is supposed they have a considerable force, perhaps as high as 1,500, on the Guyandotte Road, as I informed you in my last letter. Some brilliant skirmishing has taken place between the enemy and ourselves, and one engagement, in which our victory was decided. On Tuesday last, the 16th inst., Col. Clarkson, Aid de-Camp to Gen. Wise, made a dash as them, with a troop of cavalry, equalling