. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . The camp was 35 miles from Gardey Bridge, and oiu- stores werelanded from steamboats 25 miles below that post, making 60 miles of enemy was as badly off, and no aggTessive operations were possible oneither side. This became so evident that on the 5th of October Roseeranswithdrew his forces to camps within 3 or 4 miles of Grauley Bridge. Lee had directed an effort to be made by Greneral Loring, his subordinateon the Staunton line, to test the strength of the posts unde
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . The camp was 35 miles from Gardey Bridge, and oiu- stores werelanded from steamboats 25 miles below that post, making 60 miles of enemy was as badly off, and no aggTessive operations were possible oneither side. This became so evident that on the 5th of October Roseeranswithdrew his forces to camps within 3 or 4 miles of Grauley Bridge. Lee had directed an effort to be made by Greneral Loring, his subordinateon the Staunton line, to test the strength of the posts under Reynolds atCheat Mountain and Elkwater, and lively combats had resulted on the 12thand 14th of September. Reynolds held firm, and Roseerans had not beendiverted from his own plans. On October 2d Reynolds delivered a retrunblow upon the Confederate position at Greenbrier River, but fomid it toostrong to be carried. Both parties now remained in observation till the endof October. Floyd reported to his Government that the eleven days of coldstorms at Sewell Mountain had cost more men, sick and dead, than the. A DETACHMENT FROM GENERAL FLOYDS COMMAND PREPARING TO SHELL GENERALROSECRANSS CAMP AT GAULEY BRIDGE. FROM A SKETCH MADE AT THE TIME. 148 MCCLELLAN IN IVEST VIRGINIA. battle of Manassas Plains. More enterprising in plans than resolute orskillful in carrying them out, lie determined upon another effort, with Leesconsent. Taking advantage of Rosecranss neglect to occupy Fayette CourtHouse and Cotton Hill, a mountainous mass in the angle of the Kanawhaand New nvers, he moved with a column of about five thousand men acrossNew River and down its left bank, and startled the Union commander byopening with cannon \\\>o\\ the post at Gauley Bridge on the 1st of Novem-ber. The demonstration was more noisy than dangerous, for Floyd had nomeans of crossing the river. The ordnance stores at the post were movedinto a gorge out of the range of fire, and a battery was estaljlished high u
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