Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-06-01

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4 Correspondence Of the Richmond Enquirer.
+ WYTHEy1LLg,S May II, ls64-Sinoe my
Hast letter we have had stirring times in
/ this department. .3
+ The Yankee Generals Averill, Lowell
and Duffis have been making desperate
attempts to.occupy the country. and, re-
gret TO say, with too much sucCess!h H.
have NO gdoubtl that their invasion was
based upon the certainty of Grants sue
icess before Richmond, which would thus
fhsye enabled them to take full and entire
possession of Virginia at one grand blow.
Gen. Lee, however, has had something to,
say in the execution of this programme, !,
and has, fortunately, very seriously inter.
tefeu Win IT, ;sa ur 3. l.iss = s.7f = -
Your readers haVegno5 doubttheard all
about the capture of Dublin, and the sub
seauept movement of the. enemy on New
River Bridge, and, as know very little of
the particulars, I will rot attempt TO res
late them. .s.s. Ia. 1i.IHlr7. ls-P.
On Sunday night last Gen. Morgan left
Saltville for the purpose of occupying
Laurel Creek .Gap, and preventing the ap-
prosch of Generals iAVerill and Dufiie, who
were reported'to beat Jeffersonville. His
commAnd reached the gap after a very ia
tieui1g march over q rough and difficult
1 u,
ling. Scouts were despatched towards
EJeffersonvilIe, who returned about three
o'clock P. M, and gave tie information
that the enemy we're moving upon Wythe-
BviIle.T, IT. now becsme5a matter of the Ut
Enost Importance toFeact there in time to
meet them, aud the command was ordered
to inove,s They. reached q point Rb0ut 81
miles from here by eleven o'clock p NJ,
and went into camp. The next morning
the column was ypnt in motion and arrived
in toWnIat3 O'Clock. A camp was select
ed and the order given To-. unsaddle and
feed the horses, which by this time was
very necessary as they bad not been fed
but once since Leaving SaltVille. 4 10 sai. !.
i tAPPRoACH OF TIE UNION TRooPs-THB stEAH.
- % -sssl- KEEsn RBTRRAF. 80. 800. u
I Scarcely had the saddles been removed
before il was. announced. that the enemy
were approaching in strong force through
Croeket's Gap. Grittshden with the forces
of Col, ,Alston, and Lieut. Col. Cook, was
Iordered5 TO occupy the Gap, and eontest
their advance, Col. Giitner's Brigade, and
iGen. Morgan's old Brigade, under the COM
Il mand of LieutsdCol. b. A, Aston, were or
ldored 10 m0yelrapidly by . teircuitous route
Ithroueh the woods and attack the enemy
i vigorously in their rear. By the time they
jhad. reached position to command tbs
,tentrauce- TO the. Cap the enemy had fall
] len back and were drawn up in line of
battle on very high hilhiu an open field,
Z which commandedithsfWhol country in
'PiEE Th5 3ES2 SSSBtry hers scooJ.asai60aB aai60a ID
and beautifully sloping hills, and in, fne
lcuitivation. ID few minutes after their
IarriYal on the gFqnudfih froptTof the ene-
j my, GIltuer's aud Alston's Brigades were
dfsm6unted and formed in line of battle,
land the order TO toadvapce was given. The
men responded to it by q tremendous shout
.,E.4hich made the, Yankees rrem6ls.l Never
i we're any troops known to advance. with
81 more stGadlness and Determination. Their
officers, ins lead of being required TO urge
.. . them forward, aWere obliged to check their
impetuosity, 70 preserve the liue. Never
! was there Q, more beautiful sight than was
! exhibited by those brave men, marching
u with eager impa1ienceS toiattGck an enemy
4 who were so strougly posted, and could be
. plainly aeen greatly 70 oqtnumbeE them.
Not 8 man Altered, bat. alI ,seemedbto
lsontend Who should be insthe lead iiAs, ]
: gazed earnestly on The short distance that
b ihlerTened between the two hostile col
umus aud saw it growing less very rapid,
ly, the anxiety and suspense WAS painful
Xhol anon < that noble, band was 10 he thu
Il frat To faIl7dI Directly there 10 h tremend
Gus roar Of musketr5, which is followed b!
4 Volley, rom The eafbineS Of the Yankees
=" Which does not, however, check the ad
vance of our 1nss''id 4he 1easE Holle
after Yolley are, fred in sauiek succession
apd..t he so1ndFeV erheFates ihrongh the lon
chainsuf hills s4sssitA las s!o5s7<asA eni - -
: The Ysnaksys saw we were Hgoing, 70
Il themSs and canld notrstand it, end thei
line begins to yield. With wild shout y
. press forward, And soon their whole line
-.lin,retreat, Finding that,W could'uospres
them as fast as they could retire, the
il wheel and form again: With another {
J. those ahonta, which tho Yankees have hear
sgE so often thatIthsSi kheW G4 Fit Imean
ls our men continne 70 advance; the enemy
=. line Is sgain5 broken, and they fall'bkck
> ahotheribIIka5 s1O3s5 ~ 70 sisSyAq hn1 20i "a