Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-21
End Of the Campaign in Northwest.
ern Virginia.

~ era ViFgInIn.
IT Is understood that the troops Of Gen.
Reynolds command are being divisioned
for active service in other quarters Of the
country. Our advices from Cheat Noun
toin are that several Of the Ohio regiments
are ordered, and are now on their way, to
TO Kentucky. Others, It is reported, will
takoup the line Of march in few day for
Gen. Kelley's headquarters at Romney,
and in conn ection with the force already
there commence q forward movement, in
concert with an expected movement Of the
grand army of the Potomac.
The advance camp Of Gen. Reynolds,
now holding the mountain pass, will re-
tain their position, and will make them
selves snug and comfortable and secure in
their strongly entrenehed blOckhouses.-
The rebels who have heretofore threatened
his advance have pretty much all dissi-
Pated away. Their own accounts
of themselves, as aseertained IN their cap
tured letters, are gloomy enough. Out Of
1900 men In one body, not 800 were fit for
service. The letter OF j. R.. BUST, Sur
geon, to his uncle, who was killed at Port
Royal, and on whom the letter was found,
has given us an insight into the terrible
priTations, sickness, death aud demoralizA-
ton which the rebels have suffered at
Cheat Mountain. nNeyer were men more
sick Of Virginia and virginians than We
are" writes this Southern surgeon. We
believe him. Aud We don't wonder. And
the Virginia ms, We dare say, reciprocate
the feeling of the South Carolinians by
this time. Like Sands aud bis wife, they
arc mutually disguised. We can also
readily believe this statement from the
same pen:
Part Of the sick Of Lees North Carolina
regiment are under my charge, and such a
spectacle a. they present would makeJ your
heart sick. Colonel. Lieutenant Colonel,
Major and both doctors are sick, learn,
and the men are dying like sheep. Dat Of
one thousand two hundred, rank and fle,
there are now only 800 ht for service.
Their condition 10 deplorahle.
No doubt their condition is dsplorable.
And II has been so ever since they cameto
Western Virginia. In the first place they
found different state OF tAlngs from what
they expected. They found population
who did not welcome them as deliverers;
q people who had little or NO sympathy
with them. In the next place they found
the elements against them. The storms
and frosts and chills Of Cheat Mountain
we've not by any means the balmy Eephyrs
of the South. AT mid Summer even their
elotbing did not suffice % protect them
from suffering at night Added to this
their food was bad and scanty. They fell
sick on it. And when they were taken
down they had miserable attendance.-
They "died like Sheep as their doctor
writes. Regiment after regiment was dec
mated ia this way. OF course dsmorali-
sation set in. Nothing was Leu them but
70 withdraw. Aud they have done 90 as
speedily as possible. Batvefy feWo Lees
'grand armyp now remain on the other
side OF Cheat Mountain pass. Diseour.
aged, diseased. demoralised, they have dis.
BiPAted away until our troops find but lit-
lie 70 engage their attentions. OonSe.
qSsntly our Generals are removing them
70 other seids,
The failure Of rSbellion in Western vir.
Einla may be considered romplste. Floyd,
poor thief and traitor, has stolen Oh with
most Of his command, utterly Illustrated and
crippled. His course, asalsO that Of Wise,
has been one OF constant hnmillatlon.-
They have been beaten and wuratod nom
the ststt The campaign In Western vir-
slulA has been a miserable fatlurS. The
leaders 60 home toreeslVS che upbsaldlnss
and rsproAshsl Of their papers aud thelr
people. Already Wise 10 Sisk inbsd-soto
at hoaFl-hls bsAssadueio all ezpossd.-
fioyd's pFiyRto character Il bitterly Gspets.
d, aad even among bis eonfsaSrslos neuRhI
rsmSlns for him bat al lsnsmlaIoai rem.
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