Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-28
FROM GRAFTON.
Correspondence Of the IntellIgeuoor.l
GRAFroE HOUSE, GRAFroN.

June 27,lS6I.
The news Of Col. Kelly's promotion is
received everywhere With joy, especially
among the Virginia and 0hi0 troops, who
have had opportunities, of judging his
character and qualifications ms COM
mander. They joy among the officers and
men OF the COlouels own regiment knows
NO bounds. They feel that his appoint
ment was eminently it and proper, and
that theyhaye been highly honored through
/ him. The citizens, too, of the various
counties through which our army passed,
are loud in their expressions of satisfaction
at this act of Gen. Mcclellan and the Ad-
ministration. But tile gallant fellows
composing the LIST ViTginin Regiment are
now without colonel. Hurried out Of
Camp CATlile without y moments notice,
| withno equipments of any kind until af-
ter the rOut of the rebels Mt Phillip, and
no Colonel, may say, from that time to
the present: scattered all over creation,
portions of them at Phillippi. Cheat River,
Grafton and Long Bridge, seldom or never
visited by a regimental officer, doing the
hardest kind of duty without tents OF KNAPP
| sacks, the commissioned officers should ex-
ercise great care in the selection of Colonel
one that will take hold aud remedy many
OF the evils which the regiment has labored
under since the Colonel gotwOuuded. Let
them elect one from among themselves. they
have some company officers of untiring eHer-
BY, that feel satisfied would work without
ceasing, have tue regiment concentrated
and brought to an effective condition
speedily. Dr. Thoburn, if he would ac-
cePt, or Lieut. Joseph Britt, would suit adj
mirably- They are men born to command,
and would never rest satisfied till tho frat
Virginia occupied the position it would oc-
cuPy to-day had not the brave and gallant
Kelly been wounded. Dir. Robert s. Tr-
win, of your city, is an accomplished mill.
ttry man, the early companion OF Col. KEEL
y IN arms and would make IN excellent
Colonel.
1t was rumored to-day that the Virginia
regiment was ordered to Laurel Hill, and
that some of the company manifested an
lnwillingness to go in consequence of not
having tents. &c. 1t is to be hoped that
this is not true. They have done without
everything that makes soldering easy mp
to this time, and trust will not do any.
thing now calculated to furnish their fair
fame
All is quiet here to-day, but everything
is in readiness for any point ut any mo.
ment. 1t is still the opinion of military
men that'the rebels will attack Phillippi.
Should they do so, Gen. Mcclellan will
command in person, assisted by Gcnls.
Hill and Norris.
We have now in Western Virginia no
less than thirty-fve thousand Federal
troops, and can have twenty or twenty-five
thousand of them to meet the rebels at
any place they may be disposed to give US
battle. Wise and Haypond are with the
enemy at Huttonsyille There is IL force
of the enemy in the nrighhorhood of
Piedmont-in what numbers cannot say.
have reason to believe, however, that it is
only triAing. If they do not give us brush
in a day or so, they will find themselves
IN position from which they cannot easily
retreat. A friend from Marion remarked
in my hearing to-day, THAT Gen. Hay
mond would have to start few days
head OF the main army or his cOrporosity
would be very apt to betray him into our
hands. The health of our boys is pretty
good. Capt. Fordyce will Join his COM
pany to-day at Phillipri. THE question is
frequently asked, Why is the First Virginia
Regiment divided into so many parts; por-
lions of them being this day under Colonies
and Majors from o:her StRtes2 This is an
outrage that should not he allowed to ex-
lst now for moment. Let Colonel, now
General Kelly, get our boys together at
once. There is not in Western. Virginia
to-day a regiment that received such cruel
treatment as this same First Virginia, or
at leastportions Oft Our boys wish to be
In position to do something. They have
not been and are not now. HARRY.