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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
over New Creek, twenty-three miles West of Cumberland, early this morning, and marched to Piedmont, five miles further West, which place they now hold. The telegraph wires East of Piedmont were cut by them. Their number is variously estimated at from two to four thousand. Notice was given of their approach to the town, and the citizens were preparing to leave when our informant left. All the engines belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company were fired up and sent West to Grafton. The greatest excitement prevailed. A company of citizen soldiers who were guarding the bridges are reported to have been fired upon and killed. On the approach of the Secessionists the Piedmont operator closed the telegraph office and fled, and we have no means of ascertaining what damage is being done. Communication by railroad between this place and Cumberland is now cut off. Reinforcement of the Confederate troops in Western Virginia. Grafton, June 14. --Informa
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
"Affair at Phillippi," may be an incorrect one in some particulars, that if the Court of Inquiry which he has "solicited" shall do its duty, it will find the following facts: 1st. That the reason that induced Col. Porterfield to evacuate Grafton applied with equal force to the town of Phillippi, the geographical formation of the two places being similar. 2d. That both on June the first and June the second, he had information of the force and presence of the enemy at Grafton; the sGrafton; the said enemy having reconstructed the inconsiderable bridges at Flemington and Mannington which Col. P. had destroyed, and that the enemy, with the use of the trains of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and with the local employees of that road affiliated with him, and in his employ, was able to pour in with rapidity the troops under his command from Bel Air; that the enemy had artillery: Col. Porterfield none. 3d. That on Sunday evening, June second, all activity was visible in Col. Porterfi