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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
h with his command either to join Garnett at Laurel hill or Scott near Beverly. It was half-past 6 in the afternoon when thing his way, and reached Camp Garnett about midnight. Colonel Scott, with the Forty-fourth Virginia, reached Beverly on theon receiving information that Garnett was about to retreat, Scott continued this movement on the 12th beyond Huttonsville. p. m., just as the bridge over Tygart's Valley river, which Scott had fired some hours before, on his retreat, was about consumed. Scott, impressed with the idea that McClellan was in rapid pursuit and would soon fall on his rear, had continued oneast. Hotchkiss and party, learning at Huttonsville that Scott had gone into camp six miles further on, followed after; noy orders to abandon the mountain and continue the retreat. Scott's exaggerated idea of McClellan's force and of an energeticin summit at about 3 p.. of the 14th, nearly two days after Scott had passed that point, and about twenty-four hours after th
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
Chapter 5: The First Kanawha Valley campaign April to July, 1861. We now turn to a consideration of the Kanawha valley campaign of the early part of 1861, as that was a portion of Scott's plan of invasion of Virginia that was intrusted to McClellan; deferring until later the consideration of military operations along the Potomac, which, in sequence of time, would at this point demand attention. McClellan's original intention was to begin the invasion of Virginia from Ohio by way of the Kanawha valley along the great stage road to Staunton, having the same objective as Patterson from Pennsylvania up the Shenandoah valley; but events treated of in the preceding chapter diverted him to the lines of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and led to the Rich Mountain campaign and the handing over of operations on the Kanawha line to a subordinate with whom he was in constant telegraphic communication. Previous to the building of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the most important
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
, killed Major Rawlings, wounded the two officers brought in, and put the rest to flight. Soon afterward Colonel Johnston reported that he would occupy Bethel, endeavor to secure the negroes from the lower part of the peninsula, and then occupy Harrod's and Young's mills, whence he could best operate with safety against marauding parties. July 24th, on account of the panic following the battle of Bull Run, Butler was required to send a force of about 4,000 men to Washington. He wrote to Scott: This reduction of my forces here leaves it impossible to take up or hold any advanced position. Newport News, where I have an intrenched camp, and a very important point in my judgment, would be in great danger of attack from Yorktown and Warwick, where the Confederates are now concentrating troops across the James river from Smithfield to Warwick. As soon as Colonel Magruder learned the result of the battle of Manassas, he ordered Colonel Johnston to proceed, with about 2,000 men, to r