. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . eneral Johnston had moved histroops, thirty-five thousand strong, andu largo nrtillory force, in u southeast-erly direction. This dispatch GeneralScott received tho same day. In ac-cordance with instructions, Pattersonoccupied Harpers Ferry on tho 21st,tod helii that place until relieved byGeneral Banks. I! EALING T
. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . eneral Johnston had moved histroops, thirty-five thousand strong, andu largo nrtillory force, in u southeast-erly direction. This dispatch GeneralScott received tho same day. In ac-cordance with instructions, Pattersonoccupied Harpers Ferry on tho 21st,tod helii that place until relieved byGeneral Banks. I! EALING TON. OAEEICKS FORDAND RICH MOUNTAIN. Tub troops which had so greatly diB ■-ingnished themselves at Fhilippi were ^^icSSsssRB not destined long to re- GEOHGB l«. UeCLBLLAK. main idle at Grafton, for,ihreo days late , July Cti, wo find thorn all—tlw Indiana, and Unrdsalls Cavalry—in the neighbor-Iirst Virginia, tho Sixth, Seventh mid Ninth In- hood if their former scene of victory, ami about toiiani. Tbo Fourteenth and Sixteenth Ohio, aud mid greatly to their already brilliant record-Han, ctts Cleveland Aitillery, togetbor with the General McCiellan, who had, two weeks previous,Sixth Ohio, the Eighth, Toutu and Thirteenth token command of tho troops at and near Grafton,. 05 now controlled an nrallanh force ofabout twenty thousand men, and de-cided upon an immediate advance, inorder to offset any movement likely tftbe made by General It. S. Garnet I, whohad succeeded Portorfield, and was nttho time in command of tho Confederatetroops in Northwestern Virginia. Garnotfs headquarters wore then nt Bov--riy, in Randolph County, on tho eastem base of a long ridge parallel to tinAVloghanics, and known as Laurel dotachment of Federal troops, mider General T. A. Morris was senitoward Beverly; while anothor, iinnoiGenera! J. D. Cos, entered tho Kamiuh;i Valley, where it was likely (o ineotGeneral Henry A. Wise, and could keorihim in check; and a third force, iindeiGeneral Hill,
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