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The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Meadow Bluff. (search)
his army, could move forward unresisted. Nor would it be good policy in Floyd to go into the Kanawha valley with a force of less than 20,000 men, leaving Rosencranz in his rear, and the Kanawha river in fine boating condition, by means of which any quantity of Ohio troops might be sent up in front in a few hours. The great need of Western Virginia is troops, and if over the Pierpont Government is to be overthrown, we must have them. We need 25,000 effective men in the direction of Cheat Mountain, and 25,000 on the James River and Kanawha Turnpike. Had such a force been furnished in the summer, there would not have been a Yankee nor an avowed tory this side of the Ohio river. Instead of this, however, the Kanawha Valley and the Northwest are completely overrun, good Southern men driven from their once peaceful and prosperous homes, their property destroyed or confiscated, and their wives and children left behind to freeze, to starve, or drag out mouths of misery, subject to the
The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
s. It is bad enough that we should be deprived of the foreign supply. The thought that we must surrender to the ruthless invader our own Virginia salt wells is almost insupportable! This paper has from the beginning pressed upon the public attention the importance of protecting the Kanawha salines. It contended that the salt alone was enough to justify an immense army to clear that valley of the Yankees. The controlling military authorities, however, ignored the Kanawha salt wells. Cheat Mountain (capped by an impregnable Yankee fort,) and the contiguous impassable and almost uninhabited country, was the point of concentration of a large army--one of the finest the Confederacy has equipped — while to the Kanawha the most inconsiderable forces have been marched. The preparation for defence of that rich valley, so largely producing the next most important article to bread, was altogether incompatible with all idea of hording it. The small armies sent there have fought bravely and
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wholesale Desertion of English soldiers. (search)
Withdrawal of Federal troops from Virginia. Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 24. --Six Ohio and two Indiana Regiments have been ordered from Western Virginia. A part of them will be taken from Cheat Mountain.
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Federal reports from Southeastern Kentucky. (search)
--A gentleman who has just arrived here from the army in Western Virginia says that the campaign in that region is virtually ended for the winter. The nature of the country, the want of forage and subsistence, and the condition of the roads, make any aggressive movement for the present, in his opinion, by either party, impracticable. Gen. Floyd has fallen back to a point within thirty miles of the Va. and East Tennessee Railroad. Gen. Loring still holds his position near Cheat Mountain. It has already been announced that the enemy has withdrawal six regiments from Western Virginia, and sent them to Kentucky. A special dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, dated at Washington on the 25th of November, says, that according to trustworthy private letters from Europe, the Red Republicans of Austria, Poland, Italy, and France have made most ample preparations to rise in case the interference of England or France in American affairs affords them an opportunity. The
The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Spirited letter from a Virginia lady to a Lincoln Hireling. (search)
A Spirited letter from a Virginia lady to a Lincoln Hireling. Camp Near Lewisburg, Regi'tal Headq'rs 16th Tenn. Vola., November 19, 1861. Editors Dispatch: I here with send you a precise copy of a private letter taken from the person of one of the company of prisoners taken by Col. Savage, on the 11th September, in one of the valleys near Cheat Mountain. The letter should have appeared before the public at an earlier date, but had been misplaced and forgotten. The gentleman from whom it was taken declares himself a Kentuckian, was Sergeant in the company, and, were we to judge from the import of the letter, had been on very intimate terms with the young lady. The letter is getting a little ancient now; but its spirit shows the young lady to be one of the "True Blues," although she resides in Wheeling: Wheeling, Va., August 14, 1861. Mr. W. B. McLane.--Sir: By the reception of your letter I perceive that you are in the so-called Union army, in Western Virginia,
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
ading perverse and anti-administration game that the traitor Breckinridge so effectually played out in the Senate last session. Military affairs in Kentucky. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 10. --Gen. Zollicoller has not advanced north of the Cumberland river, as reported, Gen. Schoeff has with drawn to Sumerset, and there awaits rain forcements. From Western Virginia. The Wheeling Intelligencer, of the 9th in says: We learn from a gentlemen who arrived on Saturday from Cheat Mountain that there have been lively movements among the troops lately. Some have been sent to Kentucky, some to Gen. Kelly, and other regiments have been disposed of, so that there are not more than four regiments in all at Elkwater, the Summit, and at Huttonsville. Since the rebels abandoned their camp at Greenbrier our men from the Summit have frequently gone down there and examined the place. It is said to have been the strongest position that could have been selected, and was abandoned on
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Federal relations with foreign Powers. (search)
A Confederate victory in Western Virginia--a severe fight — the enemy Rented. The monotony that had prevailed for some says past was broken on Saturday by the receipt of official intelligence that the enemy, stationed on Cheat Mountain, had sallied out and attacked a small force of our troops, and were repulsed with heavy loss. The fight took place on Friday last, the 13th instant, on the Alleghany Mountain, fifteen miles west of Monterey, to which point the force remaining in that vicin assigned to the command of the 12th Georgia regiment, in Loring's division, a portion of which had been lately transferred to another point leaving Col. Johnston the senior officer of the post. This force, at Camp Alleghany, expected orders to move eastward, when the enemy came out from the stronghold on Cheat Mountain and made the attack, anticipating an easy victory, but returned discompared and beaten. We are indebted to gentlemen from Western Virginia for the foregoing particulars.
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
&c. We make up the following summary of Northern news from late papers received in this city: The Federal report of the native in Northwestern Virginia. With their usual tact for lying, the Yankees have converted the late victory of Gen. Johnson in Northwestern Virginia into a brilliant success for their side. The Norfolk Day Book publishes the following dispatch obtained from the Baltimore American, of the 14th inst.: Cincinnati, Dec. 14.--A special dispatch from Cheat Mountain says: "Yesterday the hardest and best fought battle of the war, was fought at Alleghany Camp, Pocahontas county, Va. General R. H. Milroy commanded the Union troops, and General Johnson, of Georgia, commanded the rebels. The battle lasted from daylight till 3 o'clock P. M. The Union loss is about thirty. The rebels lost over 200, including a Major and many other officers, and about thirty prisoners. Gen. Johnson, of Georgia, was shot in the mouth, but not fatally wo
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ed you repulsed the enemy numbering nearly, if not quite, 5,000. Attacked by superior numbers on your right, where there were no entrenchments, and on your left, where we had but partly constructed earth-works, you met him and in a hand-to-hand conflict, after a struggle of nearly seven (7) hours, drove him from the field. Not once did you falter.--Cheered on and animated by the heroic example of your officers, you drove the enemy from the summit of Alleghany back to his fastnesses in Cheat Mountain. and Virginians, you have met the same enemy you met at Green brier river on the 3d of October, and with an equally glorious result. Whilst we have abundant cause to thank God for this victory, let us not forget the gallant dead who fell by our sides, and whom we buried on Alleghany. Remember their gallantry, and emulate their example. [Signed]Edward Johnson, [Official.] Col. Commanding. Edward Willis, Lt. O. S. A. and Actg. Asst. Adjt. Genl. The following is an ex
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
ad for three miles was covered with their knapsacks, canteens, blankets, has, and haversacks, and the citizens from the country bring us the news that they were stricken with the most disgraceful panic. The villains vented their spleen upon an old woman living upon the Greenbank road, aged 82 years, by destroying her furniture, carrying off her provisions, and breaking up her cooking utensils. Colonel Johnson sent her a sack of flour, and some other articles. Their troops went back to Cheat Mountain in wild confusion, demoralized and dispirited. Nothing prevented their entire capture but the withdrawal of Colonel Taliaferro's brigade from this line of operation. We learn from our spies, and from men recently from Northwestern Virginia, that the enemy confess a loss, in killed, wounded, and missing, of over seven hundred men. Their dead bodies are still being found in the woods. Six were found yesterday, with their eyes picked out by the crews, and many more doubtless lie scat
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