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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 106 2 Browse Search
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 101 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 96 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 82 4 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 70 0 Browse Search
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 60 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 59 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 56 2 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 44 4 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 44 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Operations in the Kanawha valley. (search)
Operations in the Kanawha valley. We have, this morning, a brief account of the engagement in which a part of Gen. Floyd's force routed the Yankees under Tyler. This account is not very explicit. But it shows that our forces were victorious after a rencontre, which, from the small loss involved, must have been short. The Yankees certainly got off promptly and rapidly, or our men would have wrought more extensive results.
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Improvements is the Dispatch. (search)
Va. for the subjoined account of the defeat of Col. Tyler's Federal Regiment by a portion of General Floyd's brigade! An engagement took place to-day (August) 26th, between some eight hundred of the enemy under Col. Tyler, and General Floyd's forces, at a place called the "Cross Lanes," near the junction of Meadow and Gauley rivers, some twenty miles above the month of Gauley river. Gen. Floyd had the misfortune a few days ago to lose a boat and four of his men, viz: Dantel Mallory of Grayson, and Hugh Scott, John Jones and George Bare, of Symths, who were drowned by the boathus "cut off," as they thought, to march upon them; but they reckoned without their host, for Gen. Floyd had had a new boat but it and his whole brigade over before they got up. The two forces encampy on Monday morning the regiments under Cols. Heth and Reynolds attacked the enemy by order of Gen. Floyd, who were posted on a high hill, and dislodged them from their position; when they commenced a
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Moral epidemics. (search)
Confederates must have this necessary article, and it seems that they know where and how to get what they want — lead in Missouri and salt in the Kanawha." The Times regards the destruction of Tyler's command as possibly but the beginning of an onset that shall sweep every vestige of the Union army from that part of Virginia. Cincinnati, Aug. 25.--We learn from the Kanawha valley that Col. Tyler's forces at Summersville, Va., were surrounded and badly defeated by the Confederates, under Floyd, early yesterday morning. No particulars have yet been received. Interesting letter from Connecticut. The following letter was dropped from an ambulance by a sick soldier belonging to Gen. Banks' column, and the finder sent it to the Baltimore Exchange for publication: Newington, Conn., August 23, 1861. Dear H. --I have been looking every day for a letter from you, but none has come since your No. 3. People are every day asking "have you heard from H.," especially Dem
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
ppahannock rivers12,000 At Yorktown12,000 At Norfolk and Portsmouth10,000 At Richmond5,000 Forces of Generals Lee and Floyd, in Western Virginia50,000 At Lynchburg (Camp of Instruction）10,000 Total$239,000 The disposition of the forces in cising his men, and in getting them accustomed to the manœuvres of brigades and field evolutions. In the meantime, Gen. Floyd, (John B. Floyd, late Secretary of War,) with a column of 15,000 troops, raised in the Southwestern counties of VirginiJohn B. Floyd, late Secretary of War,) with a column of 15,000 troops, raised in the Southwestern counties of Virginia, had been moving in the same direction. On the 10th of August he was at Newbern, on the line of the Great Southern Railroad, where he finished the organization of his division, and started on his way to the North. On the 12th, his column was at before this time both Gen. Loring and Gen. Jackson have advanced upon Gen. Rosencranz upon one side, while Gens. Lee and Floyd have attacked him upon the other. A Southern merchant in New York. The following, from the New York Herald, sho