Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-07

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ment Mt Gaulev Bridge-The Rebels
Fire at n Big House all day without
Hiding 1t Once.
From the Cincinnati Gazstte.l
Captain Golding, of General Roseorans'
staff and Ouartermaster John Mackbabee,
of the Eleventh Ohio Regiment, arrived in
this city yesterday afternoon from Gauley
Bridge, which place they left Saturday
morning. From these gentlemen we gath
er some interesting particulars of the en-
gagement reported by telegraph to have
taken place at that point Friday, and which
many persons were Npprehensive had re-
suited disastrously to our cause for the
reason that nothing additional could be
learned from the same source.
For the benefit of those not familiar
with the topography of the country in the
vicinity of Gauley Bridge, it may be prop
or TO state that Mt that point the Gaulev
and New rivers come together, forming the
| Great Kauawha, just as the Allegheny and
Mouongahela rivers unite in forming the
Ohio. GauIey Bridge, or rather what was
the bridge before Wise burned it in his
precipitate retreat last July, spans GNuley
river about two hundred yards above its
confluence with the New. The country
is very mountainous, the hills on all sides
looming up fully five hundred feet, and the
water courses almost entirely covering the
valleys, so that there is not room in many
places for even a wagon road. Our forces
are encamped at the bridge, and Mt several
points on the cast bank of New river, ex
tending up that stream twelve or fifteen
miles This brief explanation may serve
to make Capt Golding's statement more
Ineligible.
On Friday morning, a detachment of
| CacOnj KputupSV Rapi-
ment. under Capt. Wheeler, returned to
Gen. Rosccrans' headquarters, and report
ed the rebels in considerable force on the
west side of New river. This intelligence
created no uneasness, for the reason that
the country there is an almost impossible
wilderness, and the enemy had no means
of crossing if they were So disposed. Our
skirmishers occasionally penetrate this be-
nighted region, but we believe it has never
heen deemed necessary to throw out pick
cts in that direction.
Shortly after Capt. Wheelcr's return, two
batteries were opened upon our troops in
the vicinity of Gauley Bridge from the hills
on the opposite side of the river-one di
rectly opposite the bridge, end the other
two miles lower down, at the fails of the
Kanawlln opposite a large brick house, in
which our GommisSary's supplies were
I u''St b'AlIGIISS pl'' Gu 'tM'i
ly all day, the Commissary's quarters af-
fording them IL fine mark, but so had was
their firing, they didnot strife the house once! !
In almost every instance their balls and
shells fell short. The upper battery, after
wasting good deal of ammunition, sue
cceded in driving the Eleventh Ohio FROM
their camp on the hillside opposite, and in
| sinking II flathuat, which served our army
as Il ferry This was the extent of the dam
age done. Not man was killed, and the
| tathoat WAS raised again the same evening,
and made to do good service that night, us
will be seen.
II was not until the day had far advance
ed that our artillery could lie brought To
bear upon the rebel batteries. Our ritled
guns were all Mt the various camps up
| New River, but when they were once
placed in position it was not long till both
the rebel batteries were silenced. The
loss of the insurgents, if any, is not known.
A train OF wagons on its way from Can
| ley Bridge to orr encampmeutS shove, was
fred upon the same day, when five or six
miles up the river. by rebel infantry, and
three of our men wounded. Three cOmPH-
mics from Gen. Benham's camp at Hawk 5
| Nest came to their relief, and soon drove
the enemy back of the hills.
Friday night Gen. Benham's brigade
moved down the river to Gauley Bridge,
and were ferried across the river on the
Rathoat which the rebels had previously
sunk. They moved along the base of the
hill upon which the rebel batteries had
been planted, intending to go down as far
as Loup creek, three or four miles oclow
where there is gap in the mountains, and
Al road leading to the rear of where the
rebels are encamped. Another brigade,
MCook's or Schenck's, would probably
cross above, and it is confidently believed
our troops will be able to surround the
insurgents on these mountains before they
can make their escape, On his arrival at
Charleston, Saturday evening, Capt. Gold
ing learned by telegraph that the firing
from the rebel batteries had not been re-
moved
LATER.-Since writing the above, the
steamer Allen Collier has arrived from
Camp Enyart, which place she left Sunday
morning, but brings nothing additional OF
importance from Gauley Bridge.
We learn, however, from the officers of
the Collier that battalion of Piatt's Zou-
ayes had left Winfield and gone to Mud
Bridge, on Guyandotte Creek where they
Saturday night captured twenty-five pris-
ouers.
THE ancient Earldom of Cromnrtic, at
tanned in l746, has been revived with its
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