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The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Western Virginia. (search)
nd generous-hearted a man as I ever knew.--His death will be much lamented by numerous friends. Early in the war he fled for safety from his home in the Northwest, upon the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The traitors of that region had marked him. He left his young wife and only child — if possible to follow him — and escaped very narrowly. He came to Richmond, and soon after joined the volunteer company of Capt. Wallace, with which, as Lieutenant, he came to the West, and joined Wise's Legion. He was here but a little while before he was made a Colonel, and has acquitted himself in that post very gallantly. He was a brave and true man, and so died. I have no particulars of this skirmish, further than the death of Col. S. For this kind of fighting there is very little scope in this region — the narrow passes and tall mountains narrowing the line of march everywhere to a very limited degree. I learn that the enemy occupies one of the elevations of Sewell and our tro<
The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], An Almshouses burned. (search)
General Wise relieved. --The evil and danger of a divided command in the army of the Kanawha operating beyond Lewisburg has been felt so -bly by the authorities, that they have determined to relieve one of our Generals in that quarter, and devolve the whole command upon the other. Accordingly, Gen. Wise has been recalled, to be assigned to another field of duty, and the command of the army of the Kanawha devolves upon Gen. Floyd. General Wise relieved. --The evil and danger of a divided command in the army of the Kanawha operating beyond Lewisburg has been felt so -bly by the authorities, that they have determined to relieve one of our Generals in that quarter, and devolve the whole command upon the other. Accordingly, Gen. Wise has been recalled, to be assigned to another field of duty, and the command of the army of the Kanawha devolves upon Gen. Floyd.