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The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ars of Colonel Witcher's Northwestern raid: "Colonel Witcher has just returned to Greenbrier county from a very successful expedition into Northwestern Virginia, the result of which, as we have it from authority that many be depended upon, is to follows. He brought out four hundred horses and over two hundred fine cattle. He captured Hulltown, Jacksonville, Weston, Buchanan and Walkersville. At Westover, he destroyed a large amount of all kinds of stores. At Buchanan, he captured Major Long, of the Third (Yankee) Virginia cavalry, of Averill's brigade, with one hundred men and horses and equipments complete, besides the quartermaster buildings, containing one Thousand bushels of shelled cats and at least $1,000,000 worth of quartermaster, commissary and medical stores, one thousand stand of small arms and equipments. He also destroyed the telegraph office and brought away the instruments. He also captured the bank at Weston, with upwards of $5,000 in all kinds of funds, wh