. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . tes a volley which relieved usfrom further fear of capture. On June 23rd we marched twenty-eight miles to SweetSulphur Springs, and put up at the magnificent hotel atthat place. On June 24th we marched seventeen miles tothe White Sulphur Springs and put up at the Springshouse. Here the army went into camp. June 25th Gen-erals Crook and Duffie moved at seven in the morning, Gen-erals Sullivan and Averell at three in the afte
. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . tes a volley which relieved usfrom further fear of capture. On June 23rd we marched twenty-eight miles to SweetSulphur Springs, and put up at the magnificent hotel atthat place. On June 24th we marched seventeen miles tothe White Sulphur Springs and put up at the Springshouse. Here the army went into camp. June 25th Gen-erals Crook and Duffie moved at seven in the morning, Gen-erals Sullivan and Averell at three in the afternoon. Theadvance under General Sullivan camped at Meadow Blufffour miles from Lewisburg. June 26th General Hunter,staff and escort, left camp at seven o clock, marched thirtymiles, stopping at Camp Lookout. His division comingup in the evening, went into camp, and the next day wecrossed Loop creek during the forenoon. Near GauleyBridge we met a large provision train on the way to Hunt- 200 ELWOODS STORIES ers suffering troops. On the 30th we reached Charlestonon the Kanawha, and on the 3rd, we took boat for Park-ersburg where we rested from all our works which were. ISAAC T. CROUCH not all done in six days either. From Parkersburg we weresoon on the cars, being rushed to the Shenandoah valley toget between Confederate General Early and Washington,as he was driving everything before him from the valley. HUNTERS RAID 201 We met our boys in the Louden valley, hard at it, constantly in the saddle. We overtook them at a small villagecalled Hillsboro. There we had quite a reunion for wehad been separated for nearly two months, and all wereglad to meet and exchange events. From Hillsboro we wereordered to Winchester, where there was a large force ofConfederates. Some writers speak of Hunters raid as a failure; butit was not by any means. Its value to the Union cause atthe time cannot be estimated. The enemys lines of com-munication were destroyed besides millions of dollarsworth of s
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