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Philippi road was the nearest way to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and this road had been used by the Federals at Beverley for the purpose of hauling supplies.
Another thing in our efforts to capture the fort at Beverley.
We had taken the Staunton and Parkersburg pike beyond Beverley that leads to Buchanan.
The Federals left Beverley just before sundown, and as we afterwards learned, fled all the way through the mud to Philippi (a distance of thirty-one miles) that night.
