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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 3: (search)
forces of the State to resist invasion, and on the 3d issued a call for volunteers. On the 4th Col. George A. Porterfield was assigned to the command of the Virginia troops in northwestern Virginia and directed to establish his headquarters at Grafton, where the two branches of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad diverge, the one to Wheeling and the other to Parkersburg. On the 10th Maj.-Gen. R. E. Lee was assigned to the command of all the Confederate forces serving in Virginia. On the 23d of and the other to Parkersburg. On the 10th Maj.-Gen. R. E. Lee was assigned to the command of all the Confederate forces serving in Virginia. On the 23d of May the Virginia ordinance of secession was ratified, by a popular vote, by a majority of about 130,000. On the 24th the Federal army at Washington advanced into Virginia and occupied Arlington heights and Alexandria, and on the 26th the Federal forces tender General McClellan advanced into northwestern Virginia and occupied Grafton.
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
t Harper's Ferry in the Shenandoah valley, at Grafton on the Baltimore & Ohio, and below Charlestonrge D. Porterfield and Maj. T. M. Boykin from Grafton indicated prevalent apathy and disloyalty, thf men that Porterfield was able to collect at Grafton, Lee ordered 1,000 muskets and rifles to Beveed of a contemplated Federal movement against Grafton, ordered the burning of two important bridgesf the Baltimore & Ohio, northwest and west of Grafton. Considering this an overt act of rebellion,ned but few native Virginians, to move toward Grafton, to be followed by an Ohio regiment, while otd to occupy Parkersburg and thence advance on Grafton. Porterfield, asking for reinforcements, brcements he went in camp, hoping to return to Grafton and expel the enemy. Kelley reached GraftoGrafton. on the 30th and was soon followed by General Morris, with an Indiana brigade. The combined forome 30 miles farther, where the turnpike from Grafton joins the great stage road and highway from P[1 more...]
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
and such stores as he had transportation for and destroying the remainder. The Federals did not follow. After the withdrawal of the larger part of the army of the Northwest to the Kanawha line, the opposing forces on the Staunton-Beverly line remained quiet, mainly because of the condition of the almost impassable roads and of the constant rains; the Federal forces in their Cheat mountain and Elkwater fortifications, and at Huttonsville and Beverly on their line of communication toward Grafton; and the Monterey division of the Confederate forces at Camp Bartow, on the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike, in the valley of the Greenbrier, 12 miles east from the Federal fortress on Cheat mountain, and on the Huntersville and Beverly line at Valley mountain, with detachments on the road to its base of supplies at Millboro depot. The portion of the army of the Northwest left on the line leading to Beverly was in command of Brig.-Gen. Henry R. Jackson, with headquarters at Camp Bartow