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The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], The campaign in Western Virginia . (search)
The campaign in Western Virginia.
The battle of Princeton. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Princeton, Mercer county, Va., May 18th, 1862.
It will be remembered that Col. Jennifer burnt and evacuated this place about a month having been hard.
pressed by a superior force of the enemy who surprised his cavalry stationed there.
Since that time Col. Wharton has been organizing the 50th and 61st regiments and Hennshall's battalion, preparatory to advancing by way of Rocky Gap, and in conjunction with Marshall and Heth marching from different directions, in order to surround the enemy, supposed to be composed of 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 me