Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1863-09-08
THE YANKEE RAID-RoW DEFEATED
THEIR RETREAT AND LESS.

THE YANKEE RAID-ROW DEFEATED
THEIR RETREAT AND LOSS
The raiding party under the command
Of Gen. Ayerill, which has recently run
its race in the counties West Of this,
started from Hardy county, in which
they captured a number of horses, and
passed successfully through Pendleton,
and Highland, then Into Pocahontas,
Bath, Allegheny and Greenbrier, in
which latter co0nty, hear the White
Sulphur Springs, it was met, defeated
and driven back by the gallant forces
under the command OF General Samuel
Jones. On Wednesday. the 10th of Au
gust, the advance guard of this body,
some 300 to 400 in number, dashed in
to Franklin, the county seat of Pendle-
ton, about 5 o'clock, dressed IN Conted-
srdte uniform and captured number
of citizens, horses, &c. They shot down
the mich cows as beeves, in preparation
for larger force that came in at night.
Early on Thursday, they advanced up
the South Branch of the Potomac to-
wards Monterey, capturing large num-
OF horses on the way and entered the
latter town at 4 o'clock, capturing the
County Court, and about 100 horses, as
we stated In our issue OF two weeks ago.
They destroyed in Pendletoh and High
land counties all the machinery and APP
paratus used by us in the manufacture
Of Nitre. On Friday morning, the Dist
nlt., at daylight they left Monterey and
pushed on to Pocahontas with the view
OF surprising and capturing the small
tolce under the command Of Col VIM.
L.. jackson. In this, however, they
We're doomed to disappointment. The
forces under General Jackson were too
weak in numbers to resist successfully
the advance of the encmy, but, being
strong in Spirit, offered gallant resist
ance, and fought the enemy for three
successive days. Though they were,
like the Irish Corporal, advancing back
wards" all the time before the superior
force of the enemy, with their Parthian
shots, they made number of. the enemy
"bite the dust" Gen. jackson succeed
ed in saving his command, and lost But
few of his men. It is thought that he
inflicted greater damage upon the enemy
than he suffered himself. Giving mp
the pursuit of Jackson's forces at the
Warm Springs Mountain in Bath coun-
ty, the enemy pushed on to Greenbrier
with the view of capturing the town OF
Lewisburg. - On the Goth ult., they were
met by the forces under the command
of General Samuel Jones, about 2 miles
East of the White Sulphur Spring and
II miles East of Lewisburg. The en-
gagement lasted from o'clock in the
morning till Z o'clock in the evening,
both parties occupying the same posi-
tons they did in the morning. The
engagement was renewed the next day.
and continued for two hours, when the
enemy found that it was i'm possible to
go any farther in that direction, and
very prudently concluded TO take the
back track. AS our forces were expect
ing the enemy to come upon another
road, they were at the headwaters of
Anthony's Greek, when they learned
through private citizen that the enemy
had crossed the mountain and were ad
vancing on the Warm Spring road to-
wards the White Sulphur, and had time
merely to reach that road where it is In
tersected by the Anthony's Creek road.
q short time before the enemy arrived.
Both parties arrived at the scene of the
battlefield on the same morning. Col.
Patton, with a few scouts went several
miles towards the Allegheny Mountain
on reconnaissance, and whilst at a house
Partaking of some bread and honey.
which the lady of the humble tenement
had given to him, the lady rushed in
and exclaimed that the Yankees were
coming. Col. Patton jumped upon his
horse and rode back to our camp accom-
panied by our scouts, and closely pur-
sued by the enemy. He left his sword,
bat the good woman Who'll had dispensed
to him her humble hospitality, had sui
ticient presence of mind to conceal it
under. her raspberry bushes, and the
gallant Colonel recovered his sword, and
was saved the modification of having it
to fall into the hands Of the enemy
Though Gen. Jones was present, when
the battle was fought, he assigned the
command to Col. Patton. Our men had
merely time to prepare simple barri-
eade across the valley made of fence
rails, when the enemy came upon them.
The enemy fought desperately, charging
with cavalry, time and again, up to the
barricade, and some dead Yankees and
horses were found lying together within
few feet OF it. They were anxious to
break our lines, because We held the
Anthony's creek road, by which they
wished to retreat into Pocahontas. They
feared that, if compelled to retreat upon
the Warm Spring road, they would be
captured. In fact, Gen. Averill remark
ed, where he took dinner on the day of
his retreat, that they would be sure to
be captured either on the Allegheny or
Back Greek Mountain.
In this fight, we had 20 killed on the
field, and 8 or 4 have since died of their
wounds; 100 wounded, and about 10
missing our whole loss being between
100 and ITO.