Letter
Unknown to Brigadier General Benham, November 13, 1861
Camp Gauley Mountain, November 13, 1861.
I hope your camp equipage has been ordered up. Make every arrangement to occupy the hill, and make your troops comfortable until others come over. Keep up your supplies of provisions, so as to have three days ahead. Next ascertain the routes by which the Raleigh road may be reached in the best ways from any point between your position and the mouth of Loop: Brigadier-General BENHAM. * . Y
Information from Bushy Knob shows the enemy have retreated, and â the proper way is to send word to the troops at Cassidyâs Mill to press on them and push up the Fayette road.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Maryland, N. Virginia, W. Virginia, 1861–62. Location: Camp Gauley Mountain. Summary: Orders Brigadier General Benham to secure and fortify a strategic hill, maintain three days' provisions, and coordinate troop movements to pursue retreating enemy forces along key routes in Western Virginia.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 5
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