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William E. Jones (search for this): chapter 1.33
s fully known among the soldiers that General William E. Jones, with his brigade of cavalry, was to im somewhere near Clarksburg The fact that General Jones was on this raid gave General Imboden and and confidence in their own undertaking. General Jones was known to be a dashing cavalry officer,is chief, from Clarksburg, that the advance of Jones was at Shinnstown, seven miles north of him, around Federal headquarters at that place. General Jones did his part well. He broke the Baltimoreo and Pennsylvania. When near Clarksburg, General Jones rode with fully fifteen hundred of his men Parkersburg, on the little Kanawha River, General Jones burnt the oil works in Wirt county. Here with fire, and the soldiers who were with General Jones, at this day, get excited when that fire ih was in splendid condition. When we met General Jones he had selected five hundred head of as fis of their government, did it faithfully. General Jones completely remounted his entire brigade of[1 more...]
Napoleon (search for this): chapter 1.33
st chased the Yankees out of were probably the product of his brain. General McClellan was at Beverley reposing on his Rich Mountain laurels, where he and Rosecrans had more thousands than Colonel Heck had hundreds, when the administration at Washington in their dire discomfiture after the 21st of July, sent for him to come, and that with all possible speed to take the command of General McDowell's defeated and disorganized army, and on his arrival at Washington, he was hailed as the Young Napoleon. In approaching Northwestern Virginia from the east, Beverley is the key to all that country, and none knew this fact better than the Federals, and the boast was often made by even the private Federal soldiers that Beverley would never be taken, and this had been the fear of our leaders that we would have to go around Beverley, and if Beverley had not been captured, as the writer now views it, the Imboden raid would have been a failure. The purpose of the raid was not to fight, but to cap
Winston Fontaine (search for this): chapter 1.33
ia. At the beginning of this winter a Colonel Winston Fontaine, who was born and reared near Richmoate soldiers. A Major Morgan accompanied Colonel Fontaine as his adjutant. Mrs. Fontaine also accoMrs. Fontaine also accompanied her husband to Western Virginia and spent the entire winter in the home of the late Colonelrily thrown a great deal of the time with Colonel Fontaine. I was seventeen years old, and Colonel Colonel Fontaine was just the man a boy would admire. He was a brave, generous Christian gentleman, a fine iding party came from Beverley to capture General Fontaine's force, the result of which was to leaves mission to my father's house was to see Colonel Fontaine brought to the parlor, where they were ined to each other. Colonel Jackson told Colonel Fontaine, in the presence of Major Thompson, my faerate soldiers. Colonel Jackson informed Colonel Fontaine that night that he (Jackson) had been autchmond to take part of the regiment which Colonel Fontaine had already recruited, and in conjunction[3 more...]
Rutherford B. Hayes (search for this): chapter 1.33
the dispatches of Generals Robert Houston Milroy, George Crook and Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, telling of their wonderful adventures, all of which were successfulunty. General Crook got as far east as Lewisburg, in Greenbrier county, and Colonel Hayes reached Pearisburg, in Giles county. Colonel Hayes was in command of the faColonel Hayes was in command of the famous Twenty-third Ohio Regiment, and the dozen or more dispatches sent back by him on that expedition are to this day a remarkable revelation, and the greatest mystery is, that Rutherford B. Hayes, as President of the United States, should put his name, on the 16th day of June, 1880, to an act of Congress, making appropriations atch, but it is too long to be inserted here. Prosperity short lived. Colonel Hayes' prosperity, however, was short lived, as the very next day he informs his g on our men, collecting forage and provisions. This is the very last of Colonel Hayes' dispatches on that expedition, and the light of his pen flickers and goes
R. M. T. Hunter (search for this): chapter 1.33
proclamation did not apply to the forty-eight counties that constituted West Virginia, and that these counties were left precisely as if the proclamation had not been issued. So the negroes of West Virginia were not freed by Abraham Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. The first and only time that we have any record of Mr. Lincoln being questioned about the legality of the formation of West Virginia was at Hampton Roads conference, in February, 1865, when the Confederate State Senator R. M. T. Hunter (see Stephen's History of the War Between the States, Vol. II., page 616) put the question personally and directly to Mr. Lincoln to know what would be the result of a restoration of the Union, according to his idea, as to Western Virginia: Would the Old Dominion be restored to her ancient boundaries, or would Western Virginia be recognized as a separate State in the Union? Mr. Lincoln replied that he could only give an individual opinion, which was that Western Virginia would be
William Woods Averill (search for this): chapter 1.33
m. Harris, of the Tenth West Virginia Infantry. At the same time, General William Woods Averill assembled a large force of cavalry, fully 6,000 men at Keyser, (whiings, but Jackson went through without the loss of a man or a horse, and while Averill went on and fought the battle of Dry Creek or White Sulphur, where he was defeor three days at Huntersville, the county seat of Pocahontas, waiting for General Averill to return, while 2,500 men were loitering there. Some wag of a fellow wmin S. Roberts was relieved of his command in Western Virginia, and General William Woods Averill was appointed in his place. The government at Washington was greatembling in West Virginia of what was known as the Eighth Army Corps, under General Averill, for the purpose of destroying all the western part of Virginia inside theer and December of that year, the last raid ending up at Salem, Va., where General Averill did so much damage to the railroad and Confederate stores at that place.
Loring (search for this): chapter 1.33
thick upon him; the third day comes a frost, a killing frost, and when he thinks, good easy man, full surely his greatness is a—ripening, nips his root, and then he falls. By the first day of June, 1863, the Federals had abandoned all the territory of Western Virginia that they had acquired by their forward movement in the early spring, and even contracted their lines further back towards the Ohio River than they were at the close of the year of 1861, and by the 1st of September, 1862, General Loring occupied the Kanawha Valley, and General Jenkins passed through Western Virginia into the State of Ohio, and when winter closed in on the mountains of Virginia that year the outermost posts of the Federals were in Beverley, in Randolph county; Bulltown, in Braxton county; Summerville, in Nicholas county, and Fayetteville, in Fayette county; all of these places were fortified with ditches and parapets, and were well supplied with artillery, and the troops lived in block houses with portho
E. P. Scammon (search for this): chapter 1.33
he continually refers to in his dispatches as the only trouble. There was no trouble to whip the enemy, but the Captured Stuff, he really did not have a sufficient number of men to care for. From the dispatches, this Captured Stuff consisted of horses, mules, oxen and milk cows, and what little hay and grain the already impoverished farmers had on hand in the spring of the year of 1862. As late as the 8th day of May, 1862, from Pearisburg he sends a dispatch (see same Vol. 609) to Colonel E. P. Scammon, commanding brigade in which he says, This is a lovely spot, a fine, clean village, most beautiful and romantic surrounding country, polite and educated secesh people. It is the spot to organize our brigade. The writer would love to give this whole dispatch to his readers. It is a gushing affair. The Colonel was evidently under the influence of balmy spring when he wrote this dispatch, but it is too long to be inserted here. Prosperity short lived. Colonel Hayes' prosperity
A. Morgan (search for this): chapter 1.33
d the deepest snow that he ever saw in the mountains of Virginia. At the beginning of this winter a Colonel Winston Fontaine, who was born and reared near Richmond, came to Pocahontas county, commissioned by the Confederate government to raise a regiment of mounted men. This gentleman was a grandson of Patrick Henry, and married Miss Mary Burrows, the daughter of Dr. Burrows, the famous Baptist preacher of Richmond, who made such a reputation as chaplain among the Confederate soldiers. A Major Morgan accompanied Colonel Fontaine as his adjutant. Mrs. Fontaine also accompanied her husband to Western Virginia and spent the entire winter in the home of the late Colonel Paul McNeil, of the Little Levels of Pocahontas county. This gentleman had represented Pocahontas county in the Constitutional Convention of 1861, and the writer is his youngest son. At this time I was not an enlisted soldier, but was necessarily thrown a great deal of the time with Colonel Fontaine. I was seventeen ye
John Pope (search for this): chapter 1.33
at had been done. In the year 1862 a dry summer and fall had prevailed and dry weather is an indispensable requisite for active military operations. To recount, before the close of that year, Stonewall Jackson had made his splendid Valley Campaign including the battle of McDowell, the Seven Days battles around Richmond had been fought and won; not long thereafter the battle of Cedar Run, and very soon thereafter the battles of Thoroughfare Gap and the Second Manassas where and when General John Pope hurriedly left his headquarters, that had been in the saddle. Later, north of the Potomac; the battle of Sharpsburg was fought when General McClellan went down in defeat the last time. This was more than the flesh and blood of which Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet were made, could stand; and poor McClellan, although a man of fine war talent, and having exerted that talent with every power of his nature in behalf of his government, was bound to go, and not long thereafter was relieved of
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