Named Entity Results, Summersville (West Virginia, United States)

News from the North. The receipt of Northern papers as late as Friday last, enables us to lay before our readers the following summary: The battle near Summersville. Clarksburg,Va., Sept. 12. --A battle commenced between the Federal troops and the enemy at 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, near Summersville. Gen. Rosencranz, after taking a reconnaissance, found Floyd's rebel army 5,000 strong, with sixteen field pieces, to be entrenched in a powerful position on the top of tSummersville. Gen. Rosencranz, after taking a reconnaissance, found Floyd's rebel army 5,000 strong, with sixteen field pieces, to be entrenched in a powerful position on the top of the mountain at Cannex Ferry, on the west side of Gauley river. The rear and extreme of both flanks were inaccessible. The front was masked by heavy forests and close jungles. Col. Lyttles' 10th Ohio Regiment, of Benham's Brigade, was in advance, and drove a strong detachment of the enemy out of their camp, this side of the position, the state of which was unknown. Shortly afterwards his scouts, consisting of four companies, suddenly discovered themselves in the face of a parapet battery