Named Entity Results, Cheat Mountain (West Virginia, United States)

From the Northwest. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch,] Camp Bartow, Greenbrier River, Pocahontas Co., Aug. 21. The forces recently stationed at Monterey have been moved to this place at the foot of Cheat Mountain. The troops are under the command of Col. Taliaferro, while General Jackson is commandant of the line. The enemy is strongly fortified on the top of Cheat Mountain, and have the sides of the road effectually blockaded, so that to attack them our forces will have tCheat Mountain, and have the sides of the road effectually blockaded, so that to attack them our forces will have to keep to the main road, which has planted in it a number of cannon of large calibre, and bearing directly down the road. A brigade, consisting of Col. Fulkerson's Regiment, Major Rogers' Battalion, the remnant of the Twenty-third Regiment, and Shumaker's Artillery, under the command of Colonel Taliaferro, on Monday morning advanced to within three miles of their post, drove their pickets in, and then waited for hours for the enemy to attack us; but they feared to move out of their stronghold.

ld reach it. A correspondent, under date of the 21st, reports that the second division of Gen. Lee's army was then on the Greenbrier River, a the foot of Cheat Mountain. On that mountain the enemy was well fortified. Cheat Mountain is on the east of the road that leads northwardly from Pocahontas to Huttonsville and thence Cheat Mountain is on the east of the road that leads northwardly from Pocahontas to Huttonsville and thence to Beverly. A part of the Federal army is on that road retreating from Lee, and another part is on Cheat Mountain, as aforesaid. The rumor above may be one of those remarkable rumors which have been known to precede, from twelve to twenty-four hours, the authentic news of a victory. There was a rumor here of the victory at Cheat Mountain, as aforesaid. The rumor above may be one of those remarkable rumors which have been known to precede, from twelve to twenty-four hours, the authentic news of a victory. There was a rumor here of the victory at Bethel some hours before reliable information came.--There was no authority for the rumor; it could not be traced, yet in a few hours it was converted into truth and reality. We hope it may turn out so in the rumor about General Lee's victory. There is a brief correction of the Federal telegraph about a skirmish at Hawk's Ne