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The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
ight--remarkably light. We are now at our old camp, where we may remain until spring, or we may not. The country between this and the Valley, either by this road or the James River and Kanawha Turnpike, is simply a desolation and a wilderness, where neither man nor horse, however industrious, may obtain one mouthful of food. The roads are very much out up, and a few days of rain will render them impasse able for months to come. A vast deal of suffering in the counties of Fayette, Nicholas, Logan, Raleigh, Mercer, Greenbrier, Glies, Monroe, and Allegheny, is inevitable. In the first five counties named there are many families already beginning to feel the pangs of starvation, and this will be the case with the last four by Christmas. Neither corn nor wheat can now be obtained unless at enormous rates. It is not in the country to be sold, and the little there is on hand will soon be consumed by Gen. Jenkins's large cavalry command. Like the Egyptian locusts, a large cavalr