| − | Lewisberg Va<br /> June 20th 1861<br />To Adj. & Inspector Gen.:<br /> S. Cooper<br />Sir:<br />Capt Wise with his company and two<br />other companies mustered into my<br />Legion have or will have reached<br />Gauley Bridge this morning say: -216 men<br />There is another company there from Fayer: 70/ “<br /> There to day 286 men<br />Yesterday I dispatched Capt Caskie’s 51 men<br />“ “ “ Capt Buckhole artil 12 2 p.<br />A company from Frankfort Greenbrier Co 75 men<br />will arive at Gauley tomorrow 138 “<br />will be at Gauley tomorrow night 424 “<br />A fine company of my Legion mus=<br />tered in at Staunton Capt Brocks Cavalry<br />arrived here yesterday ------- 98 “<br />Besides these there are four companies<br />in Monroe 280 “<br />one in Jackson River depot 75 “<br />“ “ Covington 80 “<br />Two “ Fayette 140 “<br /> 575<br />Ready to be mustered in & nearly ready to march 673.<br />By middle of last of next week shall<br />have an efficient force at Gauley of 1097.<br />These are certainly reliable forces<br />and besides these I am picking up<br />and expecting at least 250 men say __ 250<br />Probable forces there in 8 or 10 days 1347<br />Col Tompkins has of badly armed = 1100<br />May expect & has rearmed 400<br />There will be in a week at 1500<br />Charleston & Gauley Bridge 2597<br /><br />I have sent on 2000 flint muskets and<br />have collected a number of rifles to arm<br />these men, and have got 300 kegs of cannon<br />powder, and about 200 lbs of rifle powder<br />taken on the way, besides a number of<br />double barrel shot guns. This region north<br />is very unsound, all in the rear of<br />Huttonsville & of my command. On report<br />to me last evening that there is, at a<br />place called Williamsburg, a violent Yankee<br />partizan, a Dr. Thatcher, who is intimidating<br />the neighborhood and preventing volunteers<br />from mustering, and threatening loyal<br />citizens; at the request of some citizens<br />of the place, I sent a detachment of 6 men<br />from Brock's Company to take him and his<br />party, my orderly volunteering to command<br />the party. They found him, last night<br />about 18 miles distant, barricaded in the<br />upper story of a house, and he received the<br />orderly with three shots, one of which wound<br />ed him in the head. He left a guard, was<br />able to ride back to this Legion, and returned<br />for a party to take this traitor & scour his<br />neighborhood. I have sent this morning a<br />small party and shall remain here until<br />I know the result. Otherwise, I should<br />have started with my Staff for Gauley. now<br />I shall probably move not before tomorrow<br />morning taking with me Brock's Company<br />of cavalry and will be at Gauley day after<br />tomorrow.<br /> My wagon master returned from Kana<br />last evening and reports that no invaders<br />have as yet crossed the Ohio, but a small<br /><br />party who have seized the P. office at Point<br />Pleasant. Yet the country around the mouth<br />of the Kana & Pocotalino rivers is full of<br />traitors who are arming & desperate, and can<br />be readily reinforced from Silartis falls above<br />& Galiapolis below.-I shall endeavor to occu-<br />-py all the passes into the valley and scout<br />and scour outwards with all my available<br />forces, until the main body of invaders comes.<br /> Having thus far proceeded in my command<br />and organized and put into the field,<br />nearly complete and actually in service,<br />a full regiment of my Legion. I now ask<br />that the field officers may be commis-<br />sioned and ordered to report to me at<br />once at Gauley Bridge, to wit: – Col. J.<br />Lucius Davis, Lt. Col. Jno. H. Richardson<br />and Major H.W. Fry, Jr. now in Richmond.<br />They will hand this report to you and<br />their services are indispensable to me<br />now. I beg that this may be attended<br />to immediately. -The 2nd regt. will be organ-<br />ized very soon, when I will present to<br />the Prest. other field officers for commis-<br />sions. The reports of company officers for<br />commissions will be forwarded as early<br />as possible from Gauley Bridge.-I beg that<br />you will urge the President to give these<br />commissions now [underscored], before the organization<br />of the Regt. is quite complete, because<br />the public service absolutely requires<br />them in command at the posts where<br />the men are already in service. I ask<br />this urgently of the President as not only<br />a personal favor to me, but as an act<br /><br />of justice to the officers I name, who<br />have expended much labor & money in<br />raising and forwarding these men,<br />and as a matter of necessity to my<br />command: You must remember, Sir,<br />that the latter consists of green & un-<br />organized Militia, & I need the best<br />of officers and need them now.<br /> Most respectfully<br />(Signed) Henry A. Wise<br /> Brig. Genl. & c. & c.<br /><br /><br /><br />Dispatched from<br />Gen. H. A Wise<br /> to<br />Gen. S. Cooper
| + | of justice to the officers I name, who<br />have expended much labor & money in<br />raising and forwarding these men,<br />and as a matter of necessity to my<br />command: You must remember, Sir,<br />that the latter consists of green & un-<br />organized Militia, & I need the best<br />of officers and need them now.<br /> Most respectfully<br />(Signed) Henry A. Wise<br /> Brig. Genl. & c. & c.<br /><br /><br /><br />Dispatched from<br />Gen. H. A Wise<br /> to<br />Gen. S. Cooper |
