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The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], The sad accident at Wilmington. (search)
ime back to Gauley Bridge. We have since learned that their instructions were not to burn the place, but to plunder the stores and private dwellings of their most valuable property and destroy the balance. The reason assigned for not burning the town was that they wished to preserve it to quarter their troops in when they commenced their spring campaign! Col. A. W. Reynolds, then commending this department, marched out to meet them with the 22d regiment Va. volunteers, commanded by Lieut. Col. Jackson, and the neighboring militia, and if the enemy had only come some two or three miles further, they would have been completely "done for." The people of this section have been accused of disloyalty to the Southern cause by some ignorant and malicious persons, but the manner in which the men responded to the call of the commanding officer, entirely refutes all such calumny. The retreat of the Yankees was a great disappointment to our soldiers, as they were very anxious to get a br