. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . tire shadow of doubt reganling Virsinias ultimateopiiied liom the house, wliiih the ixiiard rctiirncd, with ..,. , , , /» ^ • i i ■no .. wounding oiasergeant. The tiring ttitude had some effect in delaying active opera-continued .■icvcral minutes. I led a second company tions along the Oliio as well as upon the the luidge, and by up a ravine got them — ,T, I), C. MCCLELLAN IN IVEST KIRG/NIA. 129 and to these was soon added the 1st Greorg
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . tire shadow of doubt reganling Virsinias ultimateopiiied liom the house, wliiih the ixiiard rctiirncd, with ..,. , , , /» ^ • i i ■no .. wounding oiasergeant. The tiring ttitude had some effect in delaying active opera-continued .■icvcral minutes. I led a second company tions along the Oliio as well as upon the the luidge, and by up a ravine got them — ,T, I), C. MCCLELLAN IN IVEST KIRG/NIA. 129 and to these was soon added the 1st Greorgia. On the 1st of July he reportedhis force as 4500 men, but declared that his efforts to recruit had proven acomplete failm-e, only 23 having joined. The West Virginians, he says, arethoroughly imbued with an ignorant and bigoted Union sentiment. Otherreenforcements were promised Garnett, but none reached him except the44th Viiginia regiment, which arrived at Beverly the very day of the action,but which did not takepart in the fighting. Tygarts Valley, inwhich Beverly lies, isbetween Cheat Mountain. on the east, andRich Mountain onthe west. Theriver, of the samename as the val-ley, flows north-ward about fifteen miles, then turns westward, breaking through the ridge,passes by Philippi, and afterward crosses the railroad at Grafton. TheStaunton and Parkersburg Turnpike divides at Beverly, the Parkersburgroute passing over a saddle in Eieh Mountain, and the Wheeling routefollowing the river to Philippi. The ridge north of the river at the gap isknown as Laurel Mountain, and the road passes over a spiu* of it. Garnettregarded the two positions at Rich Mountain and Laurel Mountain as thegates to all the region beyond, and to the West. A rough mountain road,barely passable, connected the Lam-el Mountain position with Cheat Riveron the east, and it was possible to go by this way northward through to the Northwestern Turnpike, tui-ning the mountain ranges. [Seemap,
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