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The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Seizure of a Southern vessel. (search)
om the town. Major Slemmer has taken possession of the town of Spencer, in Roane county, and made it his headquarters. A skirmish took place at Cheat Mountain Pass on Monday, between the rebel and Federal forces, during which a North Carolina captain was killed and eight rebels wounded. Two of the Federal forces were wounded. The Federal forces at New Creek, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, East of Piedmont, anticipated an attack at daybreak yesterday morning from the rebels at Romney, but none came. The pickets had been firing upon one another there for several days.--There are only about six hundred men at New Creek, including the Ringgold Cavalry. A battery of artillery, however, was sent down there yesterday morning. Proclamation of Gen. Kelly. Brigadier General Kelly has issued the following order: Headquarters District of Grafton, Grafton, Va., Sept. 7, 1861. The General commanding desires to reassure the people of Western Virginia that it