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The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], The campaign in Western Virginia. (search)
two brigades. One brigade was kept at Princeton, while the other went to the Narrows and took possession of Pearisburg, which Heth so recently drove them from in great confusion. My account of yesterday's proceedings commences with Heth marching from Giles C. H., driving the enemy; Marshall marching from Tazewell C. H.; while Col. Wharton, with 869 men, and the 1st detachment of the Otey battery, having provided his men with three days rations, takes up his line of march from Rocky Gap, Bland county. Your correspondent was one of the latter's command, hence I can only state what came under my observation. The distance (10 miles) was travelled by 12M. the morning of the 17th, having driven in foraging parties and pickets all along the route. Arriving in front of the town, about a mile from it, the battery was ordered to the front and wheeled to the right into a field surrounded by woods, and just in front by a small field separating it by a rail fence. Before the gun cou