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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward. (search)
rn our back upon a foe whom we had once defeated already, and against whom, though largely our superior in numbers, we entertained no doubt of victory in the final conflict. But we yielded to the pressure of a stern military necessity, and to prevent our being cut off at Gauley Bridge by a large detachment or McClellan's army, rapidly advancing from Weston, by Bulltown, Birch Mountain, Sutton and Summersville, to Gauley. The disastrous defeat of the Northwestern army and the death, or General Garnett left the enemy free to move upon our rear, and we could not reject the alternative of retreat. General Wise had information as to the well-matured plan of locking him up in the narrow valley from Gauley to Charleston and cutting off his communication with the East, which was accessible to no one but himself and those immediately around him, and he acted upon it with promptness and success. After our departure from Charleston, the fact that we were to have been "trapped." between