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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 22: the War on the Potomac and in Western Virginia. (search)
mployed until McClellan should gain their rear. Morris carried out the plan faithfully. He advanced to Bealington, within a mile of Garnett's camp, which was on a wooded slope on the eastern side of the Laurel Hill range of mountains, between Leedsville and Beverly, where he had about eight thousand men strongly intrenched. Garnett's position was a very strong one by nature; and was made stronger by art. On a mountain slope, masked by woods, and commanding one of the most important passes iville, toward Staunton. He was too late. McClellan had moved rapidly on Beverly, and fugitives from Pegram's camp informed him that his advance was already there. Garnett turned back, and taking the road toward St. George, through a gap near Leedsville, he plunged into the wild mountain regions of the Cheat Range, taking with him only one cannon. His reserves at Beverly fled over the mountains, by way of Huttonsville, as far as Monterey, in Highland County, and the re-enforcements that had b