Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-08

adjusted, let them be kept separate from
the present popular desire to offer bOuu-
~ Wherewith to ell our present quota. q =
We trust that the question will be taken
up afresh to-day and settled upon sIPlsn
that will secure rs in the result aimed at.
This is the 9th of August and the time in
| which the quota can be filed lie far spent.
We hope she Board will not adjourn with
ont coming to an understanding with the
Banks as to whether the money can be had,
and 80 save an other weeks delay. % s:d.a
The Fight at New CrSsk-A Rebel
Attack CALAMITY Repulssd-Ic-
| CausIand and Bradley JohnSoh De-
| Eentsd-Ths Dead and wounded.
'.H' '''- NEw cRHHKI yAug. g., 1864. !,
Editors IntslIigeneer: - ~ ,rsl OF,
We bad very pretty little fight ,yester-
dsy-of little account In comparison with
the Army of the Potomac, and the Hbig
thiugs" OF the southWest,-but we are sat-
isfied with the result, although We mourn
the loss of our gallant dead. The force
under McOausIand and Bradley Johnson,
who we're so gloriously defeated at Gum
berlaDd by Gen. Kelley, made rapid march
II
| morning they started from the Wire Bridge
for this place, numbering over three thous-
and men, and about two O'Clock drove in
our pickets with Wild rush,. Johnson
made the direct march mp the New Creek
road, while MeCRusland sent portion Of
his force upon Fort Piano, commanding
the town. The balance of his men were
sent around the bill to the east end of the
place, and about four hundred dismounted
and deployed to the West, intending to
surround Fort Fuller. The alarm was
sudden, but not as complete as the rebels
/ anticipated. Col. Stevenson, of the l54th
Regiment On. G., assisted by Lieut.. Col.
]. =. Hoy, 9th Virginia, immediately put
everything in position for defence. Gen.
Kelley was telegraphed, and he ordered
| Col. Stevenson to fight to the last, and re.
1 Inducements would be sent up.
The rebels had the brow OF the hill, and
fired and cheered with great Vigor and
determination. Tho guns Of the fort, under
4 command of Capt. Holmes, Of Battery 81,
and Lieut.. BAgley, commanding a section
of Battery L, 1st Illinois ARTILLERY, we're
turned upon, the IGdyancing column of
Johnson, and they hesitSted, aud finally
halted. AcCsusland' rode up on Fort
; Piano aud . force of three or four hundred
, were sent part ofthe way down the side of
1.-The mountain towards our little fort. They
: did not appear 20 understand why the force
: sent to the, west did not operate effectu-
. ally; but they Were held in check by two
D companies of the 9Th Virginia, Cos. A and
81 G, who skirmished with them for two
: hours or more, and kept them in q piece
: Iof woods from which they did not seem
: disposed to make their appearance.
a Outside skirmishiug and fighting from
the fort continued forithree hours, with nc
HaH koN H. ,k,.n-
Q were repulsed in every attempt to advance
o within reach OF our guns. But the rein.
4 forcements sent by the gallant defender Of
West Virginia came up just Ia time. -Four
companies of the Eleventh Virginia, and
: one company of the 9Th, Co. A, the whole
= under command Of Maj. Simpson, Of the
o 18th, disembarked from the cara and re.
ported for duty 70 Col, Stevenson. Three
companies Of the llth and company 1 Of
the 9Th, were ordered to charge the enemy
Q on Fort Piano, and they did Il with . yell
and ajiush that drove theirabeIs from the
entrenched position, driving them into the
Q rife pits on the opposite side, in the face
I OF 3 heavy hre. Reiuforcements compelled
: our gallant men to retire part Of the way
down the mountain side, when the Fort
: opened upon the rebels, firing over the
= heads of our men, and the accuracy Of the
!, shells drove them down the hill IN eoufu.
a sion. IL WAS complete rout and victory
. fyr the little garrison Of thousand men
against thirty Eve hundred. no ae1nd
At eight o'clock the enemy fetfested.
picking up part Of their dead and Woun-
= dedJ 70 the extent of four ambufRnce ana
: three wagon loads. Eight OF their. dead
Jeff in our hands hsye been picked up to-
day. The wounded probably amounted to
ldffy or sixty. Their wounded prisoners
say they we're apprised that the conquest
of New Greek, would be but the work Of
fifteen minutes, aud then they would march
10 Cumberland and take Gen. Kelley from
J the other flank, and accomplish what they
Intended when be drove them ont OF
that section OF Maryland. At the house
4 where he made his head quarters, McOsus-
land expressed his disappointment 81 fnd-
ing 90 determined resistsnce.i he had
keen aPPrised that Gen Kelley was quietly
watching Cumberland, and New Creek,
with ia StoreslA and treasures, presented an
inEiing morsei. s.r-og 49, -EkE1 =
The dead Of the battle field We mourn.
even though they number but q fractiou lof
4 OF the sacrifice TO wicked rebellion. 0Buf
i their vacant places in the social circle viii
bS node che lSsB painful, because . Rreatsr
number hsve sbolnIalauRhtered elsewhere
on the battle fields. Of oqel country. All.
honor 10 the dead 81 -, +. "a
The fFiands Of the dad and wounded,
asRellas the force actively en- agSd win Be
batter satisfied WithiS record. Of the names,