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The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], A brilliant skirmish. (search)
A brilliant skirmish. Editors of the Dispatch: --The fight at "Toney's" will ever be recollected by those who won its laurele, or participated in its toils and hardships. The length, dt-Colonel Clarkson, left Hamilton, just above the "Hawk's Nest," on the 10th inst., and reached "Toney's," on the Coal River, twelve miles above Charles on, about 10 A. M. on the 12th inst., a distanhe troop either in a full gallop or straining of the horses for the last twenty miles. To reach "Toney's" the Coal River was forded ninety-seven times during the night of the 11th inst., under a viold down many a steep hill. The enemy, numbering about two hundred an fifty, was overtaken at Toney's, and after a fierce resistance in an apple orchard and an old field, was entirely routed and dpondent is, that Captain Rosser's company cut up the enemy so quickly that upon their arrival at Toney's they had nothing to do but to pursue the scattered fugitives. In this skirmish not a rider-wa