Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Phillippi or search for Phillippi in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Latest News from Western Virginia. (search)
ct from a letter to a gentleman in this city, from one of the officers of Wise's Legion, at Big Sewell, dated. "Camp Defiance, "Thursday morning, Sept. 26, 1861. "I have just arrived at camp with 13 Union men as prisoners, and find Gen. Lee's forces 7,000 strong. We anticipate a fight. Some think it will be a hard fight, but I think not, owing to the strength of Gen. Lee. The enemy's forces reported from ten to twelve thousand." Mr. Crockett, on his way, passed through Phillippi, where he tells us the Federals have burnt and destroyed all the property in the place. They have broke the windows and doors out of all the houses in the town, broke and burnt all the furniture, valuable cabinets, books, &c., of the citizens. The church, about a mile out of town, has been completely destroyed, and the minister's house has been served in the same way. Nothing being left of either except the bare walls. In Beverly, they have been equally as destructive, and in both p