Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . urned off from Salem towards Lewisburg on a roadwhich passes through the mountains at a narrow pass called the ITS PEOPLE AMI US TRADE. 121 • Hanging Rock, and my column was immediately turned towardsthat point, but on arriving there it was ascertained that the enemysrear guard had passed through the gorge. McCausland had struckhis column at this point and captured ten pieces of artillery, somewagons, and a number of prisoners ; but, the enemy having broughtup a heavy force, McCausland was compelled to fall back, carryingoff, however, t
Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . urned off from Salem towards Lewisburg on a roadwhich passes through the mountains at a narrow pass called the ITS PEOPLE AMI US TRADE. 121 • Hanging Rock, and my column was immediately turned towardsthat point, but on arriving there it was ascertained that the enemysrear guard had passed through the gorge. McCausland had struckhis column at this point and captured ten pieces of artillery, somewagons, and a number of prisoners ; but, the enemy having broughtup a heavy force, McCausland was compelled to fall back, carryingoff, however, the prisoners, and a part of the artillery, and disablingthe rest so that it could not be removed. As the enemy had got intothe mountains, where nothing useful could be accomplished by pur-suit, I did not deem it proper to continue it farther. A great part ofmy command had had nothing to eat for the last two days, except alittle bacon which was obtained at Liberty. The cooking utensilswere in the trains, and the effort to have bread ba-ced at Lynchburg. CITY RESERVOIRS AND CHURCH (R. C.) OF THE HOLY CROSS. (corner of clay and seventh streets.) had failed. Neither the wagon trains, nor the artillery of the 2ndCorps, were up, and I knew that the country through which Hun-ters route led for forty or fifty miles, was, for the most part, a deso-late mountain region ; and that his troops were taking everything inthe way of provisions and forage which they could lay their handson. My field officers, except those of Breckenridgjs command,were on foot, as their horses could not be transported on the trainsfrom Charlottesville. I had seen our soldiers endure a great deal,but there was a limit to the endurance even of Confederate stern chase of infantry is a very difficult one, and Hunters menwere marching for their lives, his disabled being carried in his pro-vision train which was now empty My cavalry was not strong 122 SKETCH BOOK OF LYNCHBURG, VA. ; LYNCHBUBG MABBLE UNO GB
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