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Updated: July 6, 2025
Orders for the Kanawha expedition The troops and their quality Lack of artillery and cavalry Assembling at Gallipolis District of the Kanawha Numbers of the opposing forces Method of advance Use of steamboats Advance guards on river banks Camp at Thirteen-mile Creek Night alarm The river chutes Sunken obstructions Pocotaligo Affair at Barboursville Affair at Scary Creek Wise's position at Tyler Mountain His precipitate retreat Occupation of Charleston Rosecrans succeeds McClellan Advance toward Gauley Bridge Insubordination The Newspaper Correspondent Occupation of Gauley Bridge.
Nudder thing I lik to do wuz pick berries, dat wuz easy too, so I dun my shar' pickin'." "Money? Lawsy chile, I neber dun seen eny money 'til aftah I dun cum to Gallipolis aftah der war. An' how I lik' to heah it jingle, if I jes' had two cents, I'd make it jingle."
No matter what they do, I don't believe in putting anybody out of church." "My mother and her children were sent to Miss Eliza Sands at Gallipolis, Ohio after Miss Frances Cree's death, at Miss Frances' request. Father did not go, no ma'm. He came later and finished his days with us." "We went first to Point Pleasant, then up the river to Gallipolis." "After we got there we went to school.
Henry Galbraith, a well-known and highly esteemed Lutheran minister, arrived on foot at his house, a mile and a half from the Deluse place. Mr. Galbraith had been for a month in Cincinnati. He had come up the river in a steamboat, and landing at Gallipolis the previous evening had immediately obtained a horse and buggy and set out for home.
I will grant Gallipolis as to her costume, but firmly to Seville or Valladolid I am held by her eyes; castanets, balconies, mantillas, serenades, ambuscades, escapades all these their dark depths guaranteed. "Ain't you afraid to go out alone, Alviry?" queried the Queen-mother anxiously. "There's so many rough people about. Mebbe you'd better " "I never saw anything I was afraid of yet, ma.
The Scioto Company fell into financial difficulties and, after making an attempt to build up a French colony at Gallipolis, collapsed. But General Putnam and his associates kept their affairs well in hand and succeeded in planting the first legal white settlement in the present State of Ohio.
The Marietta neighbors were as kind as circumstances would allow, and cabins were built for them on what is now the Public Square of Gallipolis.
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.
Three principal depots of supply were established at the bases of the principal lines of communication in the district, Wheeling, Parkersburg, and Gallipolis. At each of these, depot commissaries and quartermasters were located, and the posts and commands at the front drew their supplies from them.
Morgan's division, after reaching the Ohio River, had been moved to Portland on the Marietta Railroad, the nearest point to Gallipolis, which was twenty-five miles away and nearly opposite the mouth of the Great Kanawha. His retreat had been through a sparsely settled country, much of which was a wilderness, rugged and broken in the extreme.
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