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The retreat from Laurel Hill[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Monterey July 25, 1861.
After the battle of Cheat river, your correspondent noted as rear guard, which gave him an opportunity of witnessing many scenes of distress.
The foot soldiers, who were exhausted by extraordinary labor — some of them quite worn out before they left Laurel Hill — were scattered along the roadside in great numbers.
About ten miles from the battle-field, I saw a soldier standing in perplexity and distress — He appealed to me to advice him; said he was wounded, and could proceed no further.--I called to the lady of the house, in whose yard he was standing, and told her to promise to dress his wound and to attend to him. Manifesting the deepest interest, she said she would, and if the enemy passed she promised to conceal him. The young man's name is Overton, from Amelia.
As I rode on, my attention was arrested by a scene of deep interest to me. A baggage wagon had been abandoned; in<
The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The New York Herald upon the Situation . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], True Scene in a Railroad office. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gen. Jones 's expedition to the Northwest . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: May 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], The movement of our forces in the Northwest . (search)
The movement of our forces in the Northwest.
We observe that some of our exchanger, in noticing the movements of our forces in Western Virginia, and along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, claim that the great trestle work on Cheat river was destroyed.
This is a mistake.
We have before us a letter from a member of the 12th regiment Virginia cavalry, giving an account of the expedition from the time it left Harrisonburg to the third day of the present month.
The letter was written while ins in Allegheny county, Maryland.
At Oakland we charged the town and caught seventy-five more Yankees, and burned the bridge.
At Cranberry Summit, also on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, we caught about a dozen Yankees, and then marched to Cheat river Suspension Bridge, which we destroyed.
We then passed on to Kingwood, Preston county, and Morgantown, Monongahela county.
Gen'l Jones, with the advance of the brigade, attacked Chest river trestle work, but did not succeed in its destruc