Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-07
LsPocIaI VoEFesP llllellle OF inc 4ntelHBeneeF'I
PHILLIPPI, Barbour Co,

I am writing to you mt midnight, In or
der TO be aGle to send my letter off in the
morning by one of the messengers to Graf.
ton. l arrived this afternoon about
three o'clock, and ever since | got here, we
have all been in such a hurly-burly that it
is almost impossible for me to make up
anything like q satisfactory description Of
the state of things around this point Ny
last letter informed you Of what we were
all hourly expecting at Grafton. Week
tpected news early in the day, of an en-
IHagetneut here. Aud sure enough, we
! did hear II. had inst come down TO
city, came in from Webster, reporting the
sound of cannon heard there before leaY-
ing. Soon after, messenger covered with
mud aud perspiratiop, came in, stating
that our men had taken Phillippi at some
loss to themselves, but at Il greater loss TO
tho enemy. Soon other messengers came
in, all bringing different accounts of the
\ plauHud time of action, and of The number
leugaged aud killed. At about ten O'Clock
a messenger came 10 with the startling
: news that Col. Kelly had fallen, MORALLY
wounded, while leading the advance guard
of his regiment into the toWn-that our
troops had killed some forty or fifty of the
J rsbelS-cnptured Eve or six hundred stand
Il VI AELuo Auu -ItAGu kau
fheAd of horses. About haitian hour after
this Col. handers arrived, and when dis.
/ mounted from his horss was so weak
and weary thar he eonld hardly speak. He
1 had been out for two nights leading his ex-
petition up the Norlh-western road, and
bad. come through to PhiIlippi by forced
march. lie was Immediately escorted to
General Morris headquarters, where
] great-cTOwd rushed to hear theeuews, He
{ ronld hardly talk. l saw him close lis
! eyes aud almost go TO sleep twice while
stnting that our men were pursuing theirre-
/ treating enemy. He was taken TO the Gen.
J erals private room, aud none of were able
to hear anything for sometime. Meanwhile
/ tue excitement consequent upon the report
about Col. KEEL Us wound, continued to in
crease. ThesOldiers commenced swearing
vengeance, aud all were eager to be led on
to join the forces at this pOint. The Gen.
erals rooms were besiegcd with applica-
! lions by squads of soldiers for leave to 90
over To tue scene Of action. Among the
reat | saw Lieut.. O'Brieu, of tho Rough
and Rendies, who with detachment of
tue company had been stutionedut Grafton
for some days. AT last the General deci-
ded to send on special train, u force of
one hundred men, comprising Capt. Wal
lacH's Martinsville company. Lieut.. O'Bri-
GAA uuu eutuG OkuEtSt anu hQueu
to the list your correspondent mnd the two
sons of Col. Kelly, William and Frank,
who were eager to hasten on to their
wounded father. Just rs we were all
waiting to get on the train, word was sent
to us that ii greater force would be sent,
and that further time would elapse before
we could move. A permit, however was
granted TO your correspondent and Col
kellys sons, to get aboard the special pro-
vision train that was to precede tue other
train. aud go to Webster on it. So we got
aboard, aud arrived down the Northwest.
err road to that point in little WHILE
We then bad to get horses to cross the
country To PnillDpi. We found no little
trouble in doing SO but finally we got an
order from our cOmmnnunnt there for any
OF the prize horses that had been brought
i'll. Only one of these horses was ct to
so, and so the other two of US had to re-
cure outside ones. This we finally did.
cOuntryman who hid cOme in early in
the morning, consented that We should
take TWO Of his hOrses, and no had no
sooner consented, than we were in the sad.
dies aud started. should have noticed
that we, first of all, had to get pass be-
yOnd our lincs, aud next, that we were of
Tered u guard TO see US safe ACROSS
We were duly cautioned by the COM
mhndant NOT to attempt to pass the
outpost sentinel, some two or three
miles out, on n gallop, as his orders
were to shout unless his signul was
observed. We consequently role the first
three or four miles at only n brisk cauter,
Tut after we got past the lines we struck a
gailop and kept It up nearly the whole
way. Having no belt in which our revolt
vers could be carried, We were forced to
carry them in our hands, aud they were
1nade to serve us Hs riding whips
We met squads of all kids of people on
the Journey, and could see on the distant
hill tops small knots of people gathered to-
Bether, whom we, not knowing in which
| direction the secession forces had lied, tuck
10 be stray groups of active or passive par
ticipAnts IN the movements that had tor
some time been going on. We saw but one
i Union flag on the route, and it looked MS If
1t bad been fresh put up. The people ut
the farm hUuses which we passed looked
terror stricken. They had seen people
! mHrching to and fro past them, and they
supposed about million of men weFs cUni-
Ing upon them ia the course Of 4 day or
two. None OF them seemed to have anS
idea Of the actual state of things. They
were IMPLY pNnic-stricksn aud that was ali
they knew.
After the severest ride ever made. We
i got within the ouIposts of ourtmen-the
Oht'l4lh regiment, Col, Steadman's j; which
had come up from PArkershurg. They
were cnctmped on the hill above tibet own
Of PhillipPi. Their tents were all spread
and their men, save only, their senti-
nels, were either cooking. or Sletp.
ing. should have mentioned, that
inst before We got within the encamp-
ment, we came upon foragiug party Of
Indiana boys who were out with team
getting supplies of meat and grain, which
bad been stored up by a prominent seces-
sionist. They were just as Jolly and fresh
as u they bad never thought Of snch. a
tramp and such an adventure rs they had
last night aud this morning. After NE
had passed the Ohio encampment, and
were coming down the bill 10 the bridge,
we me, a wagon in which were John 8.