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Ordered to the Kanawha valley again An unwelcome surprise Reasons for the order Reporting to Halleck at Washington Affairs in the Kanawha in September Lightburn's positions Enemy under Loring advances Affair at Fayette C. H. Lightburn retreats Gauley Bridge abandoned Charleston evacuated Disorderly flight to the Ohio Enemy's cavalry raid under Jenkins General retreat in Tennessee and Kentucky West Virginia not in any Department Now annexed to that of Ohio Morgan's retreat from Cumberland Gap Ordered to join the Kanawha forces Milroy's brigade also My interviews with Halleck and Stanton Promotion My task My division sent with me District of West Virginia Colonel Crook promoted Journey westward Governor Peirpoint Governor Tod General Wright Destitution of Morgan's column Refitting at Portland, Ohio Night drive to Gallipolis An amusing accident Inspection at Point Pleasant Milroy ordered to Parkersburg Milroy's qualities Interruptions to movement of troops No wagons Supplies delayed Confederate retreat Loring relieved Echols in command Our march up the valley Echols retreats We occupy Charleston and Gauley Bridge Further advance stopped Our forces reduced Distribution of remaining troops Alarms and minor movements Case of Mr.
Arms will be procured, if possible, for such as may not have them, but I would advise an immediate organization with such arms as can be procured. Given under my hand and the great seal of State affixed. W.L. SHARKEY, Provisional Governor of Mississippi. By the Governor: JOHN H. ECHOLS, Secretary of State. Jackson, Miss., August 22, 1865.
General John Echols, from Staunton, Colonel Pendleton, from Buchanan, Judge McLaughlin, from Lexington, were amongst those who went with him. While in Baltimore he stayed at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Tagart, whom he had met several summers at the White Sulphur Springs. The delegation was invited to the floor of the Corn and Flour Exchange, to meet the business men of the city.
It endured for some minutes, then forth from the thickets and shadow of the forest, back from Barton's Woods into the ragged old field, reeled the 27th Virginia. Its colonel, Colonel John Echols, was down; badly hurt and half carried now by his men; there were fifty others, officers and men, killed or wounded. The wounded, most of them, were helped back by their comrades.
But the Confederate Government had other views. The total strength was 40,000 men and 115 guns. Recruited in the Valley of the Shenandoah and the western mountains, the brigade consisted of the following regiments: The 2nd Virginia, Colonel Allen. The 4th Virginia, Colonel Preston. The 5th Virginia, Colonel Harper. The 27th Virginia, Lieutenant-Colonel Echols. The 33rd Virginia, Colonel Cummings.
What a moment of awful suspense it must have been when Breckenridge moved to attack with the veteran brigades of Echols and Whartons! How the mountain must have sent back the roaring echoes as McLaughlin's artillery went into action on a sharp ridge that ran parallel with the pike!
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