Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-08-23

III
There have been some movements up here
which will probably interest you. / will give
you short account OF them. .
| On Monday, the 18th inst. (July), General
Sosmmon, with four regiments and two batteries
left this place for Raleigh. On the 18th they
found the enemy, $500 strong, intrenohel Tat
Plney, creek, four miles BEYOND Raleigh, and
commenced skirmishing With them. Two
mounted regiments had previously been sent
| 10 his reafnte cut off Ibis f6treAt. . Throbgb
come lbIunder they failed To- do 80, ind at did.
InIgbt The enemy fetrea ted leaving In our hands
80 boxes spherical case shot, bozas musSet
lcartrIdges, SO tents, and lot of intrencHibg
tools, and also Destroying go barrels Of -four, to
prevent them fallinginto our hands The espss
dItion, the object OF which was the capture Of
the rebels, vsss miaefaple fsilure.s XII a
General Scammony With Eth6 infantry and
artillery, returned here, and went on TO Ohio to
assist 10 the capture of Morgan. The cavalsy
Of destroying the railroad hrldgeoyer the south
fork Of Cedar creek, ten mileswesto of Wythes-
Vile. They arrived at Wythesyllle on the
evening Of khe 18th, and found the town gar
rlsoned by about Ave, hundred rebelS troops,
whom they soon dislodged q Then the fight was
desperate for awhile. The rebels we're firing
from the houses and every shelter they coold
find. A party of rebels were in the Court House,
doing great execution by firing from 8 the
windows. Our boys rushed up, broke in the
door and killed every mnpin there.s eThey Men
fred the house and burned the bodice. AS soon
as the rebels were driven out our men broke
ranks and went to plundering. The hugles
blew the assembly, but tie men would hot rel
spond to the call; nor did they do so until they
were driven ,out of town by the rebals, who
had received q enforcement OF seven ihundred
men, ola .soaGb1p1a ls.3y a "a yi..sup Jc2t i
/, ItWas the most dlssraceful thing Ieysrhssrd
of They broke into houses, rif1lng them or
every thing valuable; and If woman or child
yentured to demonstrate, they were murdered
Elp cold blood. A friend Of mine, who accom-
panied the expedition, told me he knew of three
women In ono house being killed for-tryiDg To-
prevent the soldiers taking their jagelry. The
ipordlnate desirs for plunder on the BART of the
men defeated the object of the expedition -
They had ample time before being driven out to-
have burned the bridge ahd destroyed the rail-
road and telegraph, but failed too iQ thing
but burn the town and the railroad depoEglT
The two regiments brOught back with thembe
tween forty and fifty thousand dollars Id silver
and gold. a saw. one ma1 with one hundred
twenty dollar gold pleces.s lsoino slIdaAa
Our loss was az follows: Colonel Tolxnd,
Thirty -fourth Ohio, 'killed;g Colonel Powell,
Second Virginia, ,mortally, tNpn1ded;, Captain
Delaney, Fret virgials cavalry killed and his
two Lleutenanls mortally wounded,O lieutenant
Barber, Sebond Virginia, and Underwood, Thir-
ty-fodfth Ohio, slightly wounded; Captain,
Cutler, taken prisoner and slnoe- hung by the,
rebels, and seventy FIVE enlisted men killed and
wopndea. 0 W o took kone bundrsd and by priao61
ere, which were recaptured; elso two pieces Of
rar,lllery, which We spiked and rolled down the
mountain. IL, g1e ,t99-i7 dsII trsJ " .o1