We understand that we had sent a force of four regiments to their rear for the purpose of cutting off their supplies-that we succeeded in getting around them, but were compelled to return because we did not have sufficient supplies ourselves. It may, therefore, be some time before an engagement will take place. They are afraid to attack us, and it is probable that our force is too weak to risk an attack on them within their fortification. A fight has been daily expected there for some time, but the enemy have been fortifying ever since they have been there, and there will not be a fight unless we attack them in their entrenchments. Lee, are both upon Sewell Mountain very near each other. All attempts of the enemy to affect a re-entrance into Western Virginia are promptly repulsed. McClellan, and has since been victoriously held by Gen. That region was promptly taken possession of, cleared of the rebel armies by Gen. It is consoling, that a different policy was adopted in retrospect to Western Virginia. From Harper’s Ferry south for fifty miles, the Union men have been numerous from the first, and it is a matter of deep regret that it did not consist with the plans of military strategy adopted at the headquarters of the army here, to occupy (at least) the northern part of the Valley of Virginia. We doubt, indeed, from all the information we can get, whether throwing out of the account Wheeling and Parkersburg, the terminal on the Ohio river of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Western Virginia had more elements of Union strength than the Valley of Virginia.
The secessionists are reckless, violent, and desperate, while their opponents, if not timid are at any rate remarkably pacific. The truth is, that in large portions of numerous, and, but for the early occupation of that region by the National troops, would have controlled it, not because they were the majority, but because one secessionist is, everywhere, a match for three Union men. There have been two engagements with them in the rear of Ceredo, one at Barboursville, one at Logan county Court-house, one at Boone county Court-house (which town was burnt by the national troops,) and finally two at Chapmansville. Thayer’s colony,) which lies on the river between Guyandotte and the Kentucky line. They have once had possession of Guyandotte on the Ohio river and for a long time they threatened Ceredo (Mr. The secessionists in that part of Western Virginia have been numerous and pertinacious. Chapmansville is on the turnpike from Charleston to Logan county Court-house, and is about twenty-five miles to the south of Barboursville, the shire town of Cabell county. The two affairs at Chapmansville, reported three or four days since, in which the enemy lost one hundred killed and a proportionate number of wounded, will, it is supposed, restore permanent peace to the Virginia counties western of the Kanawha. National Republican (Washington, DC), 7 October 1861 Part of the Kanawha Gap Battle Site, Chapmanville, Logan County, WV, 9 June 2018. Rathbone, Tazewell County, Tug Fork, Union Army, Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Wheeling, William Baisden, William Rosecrans, William S. Lee, Samuel Smoot, Sewell Mountain, Southwestern Times, Staunton Spectator, T.W. Evans, Ohio, Ohio River, Parkersburg, Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph, Portsmouth, Richmond Whig, Robert E. Cox, John Dejernatt, Kanawha River, Kanawha Valley, Logan County, Logan Court House, M.H. Evans, Harpers Ferry, Herman Evans, history, J.V. Enyart, Eli Thayer, Evening Star, George McClellan, Greenbrier County, Guyandotte River, H.C. Piatt, Appalachia, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Barboursville, Battle of Kanawha Gap, Big Creek, Big Sandy River, Boone County, Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Camp Enyart, Ceredo, Chapmanville, Charleston, Chicago Daily Tribune, Cincinnati Daily Press, Cincinnati Gazette, civil war, Cleveland Morning Leader, Coal River, Confederate Army, Daily Green Mountain Freeman, David S. 129th Regiment Virginia Militia, 1st Kentucky Infantry, 34th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 5th Virginia Regiment, Abram S.
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