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The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Rich mountain fight. (search)
led to the retreat, and as untrue statements may be circulated in relation thereto, I feel it to be duel to myself, as well as to the gallant officers and men under my command, to make a brief statement of facts. If that gallant soldier and good man, Gen. Garnett, had lived to make his official report, full justice would have been done to all concerned. On the morning of the 7th July, our scouts came in and reported that the enemy was advancing upon our position from the direction of Phillippi. The report proved to be true, and the enemy halted and took position about two miles from our camp; but he drove back a Georgia company, which was on picket duty, and with an advance party took possession of a thickly-timbered hill, near the village of Burlington. Colonel Ramsey, of the Georgia Regiment, with two or three companies of his regiment. was ordered down and gallantly drove the enemy from the hill, and held it till about two o'clock, when he was relieved by the 23d Virgi