Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-05-31
MOVEMENT or FEDERAL TRoop,-w.,,,,

MOVEMENT OF FEDERAL TROOPS -wsste,n
Virginia Rescued from tn Southern Conf.deraey
From the Wheeling Intelligencer we extract the
following details of the movements OF Federal
troops In Western Virginia. The lntelligencer
says: The passage of the troops who left the de-
pot Monday morning has been enc continued
ovation as as they have gone. we went down on
the train carrying the troops from Camp Carlile,
the Ohio Regiment coming soon after. All the
way out through Marshall the utmost enthusiasm
was awakened by the appearance of the soldiers.
At Glen Easton we found a company Of twenty
i've or thirty rifemen, and further on passed
another company Of them, numbering perhaps
forty. all mare hing towards Cameron, which they
had heard was To be attacked and burnt by State
troops. Our train reached Warrington little
after noon, and the appearance Of the troops there
as everywhere else took the people com pletely by
surprise. AS the trains rolled In they displayed
| the American flag. and with that and the gleau-
| ing Of a thousand bayonets, the people almost
went wild with enthusiasm. In a very few mi.
nutes the whole town was there, and the gladdest
| set OF people man ever laid eyes on. Their low
| scarcely knew any bounds
The trains soon after moved on down to the first
burned bridge, where the men disembarked and
paraded In meadow. Col Kelley then detailed
| six companies and started for Pennington a no.
torious secession nest, miles below, from which
IL was said the men who burnt the bridges had
come, and where II was reported some so armed
secession troops were stationed Meanwhile the
remainder Of the troops stacked arms after throw
ing out plckes and scouts on the neighborinp
| hills, with orders 10 bring in any persons they
| mISut Hnu In less IMAM ten minutes after their
| arrival they brought I'm six, some of whom 1t was
| positively asserted by some Union men from the
country around. were accessory to the destr
| OF the bridges. Squads of men continued to 90
out In different directions, and to bring in pris-
oners until they must have had, at least, dozen
| under guard at once Several OF them were re-
leased after an examination by the officers but
SIX or eight were retained until the return of Col
| Kelley.
In the evening the companies returned from
Pennington, bringing with them several prison.
ers, ard reporting that their scouts had killed one
| secessionist and wounded another When they
got TO Pennington they found Il almost entirely
| deserted, the secessiOnlsts having got wind OF
! me-! approach through the good offices Of one
| JCllifc, who, when the trains entered Manning
| ton, mounted horse and galIoptd of in hot
base te Pennington to warn tue seces.innists of
| their danger. Finding the town deserted. Col.
heliey ordered his men to scour the woods sur
rounding II, and 1t was not long till they had un-
| eafthed several Of the fugitives. most If whom
| they captured. The men who were shot were
| running from their pursuers. who called out 10
| them TO surrender. Not needing this they were
| told they would be shot unless they did No at
| tentlon was paid to the command and several
shots were fired, killing one instantly and wound
/ Ing another. Their names at this time are not
! known.
The Ohio Regiment reached Warrington on
| Monday evening just at dark, having felt their
| way over the road, examining all the bridges to
| see that itcy had not byen injured.