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[correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Wise's Legion, West of Lewisburg, August 21st, 1861. Once more, with faces turned to the setting of the sun, we march to the rescue of the Kanawha Valley. Our evacuation of Charleston on the 24th of July, just one week after the victory of Scary Creek, was a movement quite unexpected and some what misunderstood by the inhabitants of the valley. Left exposed, at the mercy of an invading foe, they could not be expected fully to appreciate the necessity for the retrograde movement, or the military propriety of keeping it strictly secret until every preparation for its immediate execution had been made. The surprise and mortification of the citizens of Charleston can be better imagined than described, when, with the booming of the enemy's cannon already in hearing, and their heavy columns almost in sight, our own army slowly took up its march through the streets with our back to the enemy and our faces homeward to the East. The old m