The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 32, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 4 December 1913 — Page 4

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The War Fifty Years Ago General W. W. Averell’s Daring Exploit In Southwest Virginia—Hia Cavalry Column Cuts the Confederate Railroad and Telegraph at Salem—The Track, Station, Culverts and Bridges Left In Ruins-—Valuable Stores of Army Equipments, Food and Clothing Burned—Marvelous Escape of the Raiders to Their Base 150 Miles Distant—Hardships of the Pursued and Pursuers—Freezing Rain and Icy Mountain Roads.

By Capt. CLORGE L. KILMER. Lata U. 5. V, THE third week in December, fifty years ago, the most interesting as well as most active body of soldiers in either of the great contending armies was composed of about 2.000 Federal troopers engaged in a heroic fight with the elements in southwest Virginia. It was a forlorn hope band, in danger of speedy capture by Confederates if spared by the elements. Its commander, General W. .W. Averell, was acting under a sort of roving comuils-

ifSPpCTy fHBSfil [IHkI Copyright by Review of Reviews company. GENERAL W. W. AVERELL. U. S. A., LEADER OF THE RAIDING COLUMN IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.

sion to spoil the enemy in his own way. Averell’s column passed the night of Dec. 15 near the town of Salem, a point on the Virginia* East Tennessee and Georgia railroad, about sixty miles west of Lynchburg, Va. The soldiers had been one week in saddle, traveling a mountainous country. Rations taken from camp had been exhausted, and their solo dependence for food was the supplies found in mountain farmhouses. Their leader described the campaign as one of marching, sliding, climbing and swimming, with the accompaniment of hunger, cold and excessive fatigue. Raiding Confederate Storehouses. The nearest foes of the raiders were behind them and between them and their base, which was in West Virginia near the Shenandoah mountains, over 150 miles frtyn Salem. The Tennessee and Virginia railroad was a Confederate line throughout all of Virginia and for a matter of thirty miles after it crossed the border into east Tennessee. At the end of that thirty miles, struggling also with the elements and with cold and hunger, was the Confederate corps of General James Longstreet. Longstreet didn’t know where Averell’s column was nor what it might be doing, but the Confederates on the east of Salem knew that the raider was afield. Among them he had a reputation for limitless enterprise and daring Learning that Salem was a great depot of military supplies. Averell set about its destruction. The Torch Applied. Beginning with the movables, the raiders burned on the ltith 2,000 barrels of flour, worth in some parts of the south SIOO per barrel. Confederate money. A like fate befell 10.000 bushels of wheat. 100,000 bushels of corn, 50,000 bushels of oats and 2,000 barrels of salt meat, which were, also priceless in the southern cities. Salt was at the time a rare and costly article all over the south. Os this indispensable 1,000 sacks were destroyed; also a large quantity of leather, for want of which half of Longstreet’s soldiers -were going barefoot at that moment; thirty-one boxes of army clothing, twenty bales of cotton, also intended for army clothing; harness, saddles anti shoes for cavalry horses, besides tools, oil. tar and other stores', and equipments and 100 army wagons, used to haul supplies from the Interioi to the depot. In the day’s work was included the destruction of half a mile of telegraph used to connect Longstreet iu Tennessee with headquarters at Richmond. The wire was coiled and burned. The watertank. turntable and all cars in sight were burned and the railroad rails torn up, heated and twisted out of shape, for a stretch of fifteen miles. Five bridges and several culverts were ruined and large quantities of bridgt

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timbers and other repairing material burned. longstreet's Plight. When news of Averell’s exploit reached the Federal leaders in Washington and the west it was believed that the doom of Longstreet was sealed. General U. S. Grant was in command west of the Bine Ridge and had planned a campaign to drive Longstreet flam Tennessee across the Virginia border. He supposed that the supplies destroyed at Salem were in-

tended for Longstreet and urged the commander of the force confronting him in cast Tennessee to push him. The destruction aud road cutting at Salem, he said, would make the Confederate leader timid. In Richmond it was concluded that Averell at one blow had isolated Longstreet in a wild and difficult region. On the contrary, Longstreet insisted later that the loss of Salem and the road to Virginia was not vital. He said that he moved his army into u re-

■ ~ Lee copyright by Patriot Publishing company, Imboden by Review of Reviews company. GENERAL FITZHUGH LEE, O. S. A.. AND GENERAL J. D. IMBODEN, C. S. A.. LEADERS IN THE PURSUIT OF AVERELL.

Sion of well stocked farms on the French Broad, where cattle, swine, sheep and poultry were abundant; also vegetables, maple sugar and honey. Blankets, clothes and shoes, he admitted, were scarce. Weeks must elapse before these could be forwarded over a broken railroad from Richmond to .east Tennessee. , * Plans to Entrap Averell, In a facetious report of Averell’s escape from a trap set for> his capture on the return march to his base the Richmond Examiner said his pursuers numbered • too many generals. Two major generals, seven brigadiers and one acting brigadier were involved in the plan to catch the raiders on their return, for return they must or- perish, north from Salem. Whan. Averell took the warpath the Confederates feared that he would invade the Shenandoah vitlldy and had posted their forces* to keep him-wust of-the Blue Ridge. *.- General,J. D,’lmbodeQ vjas in Rome-

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diate command of the defenders of the valley. He placed his troops to cover Staunton, at the southern end of the valley. Major General Fitzhugu Lee was summoned from a distance with his cavalry. Marching too far to the north, he lost two days’ time. Major Geueral Jnbal Early, commander of the department, hastened to Staunton to direct the pursuit. While other forces were distributed in the gaps of the Ridge. Lee and lmboden marched from Staunton southward to Lexington, west of the Ridge aud on the raiders’ track. From Lexington they started to cross the range to Covington: but. on being told by a native that the Federals were aiming for Buchanan. Early ordered them to that point. Buchanan is twenty miles southwest of Covington and the same distance northeast of Salem. Lee and Imboden recrossed the range to get to Buchanan, and meanwhile the game had flown. Averell Captures a Dispatch. After completing the destruction at Salem Averell struck out for the north in the direction of Covington. Icy roads over the mountain delayed tbe march. Within twenty-four hours the command swam across Craig's creek seven times, dragging artillery by ropes. By the capture of a Confederate dispatch Averell learned the whereabouts of the nearest foes and decider! to press on to Covington. Jackson’s river lay across bis route. Confederates were in force there and had piled fagots at two bridges ready to ignite. They were driven off in nick of time, but the raiding column was four miles long, and before the last regiment and ambulances bad crossed the enemy rallied to retake one bridge. The Confederates failed to retake the bridge, but were in position on a nearby ridge to rake the crossing with artillery. Averell sent word to the belated detachment to swim the river higher up and then destroyed the Fridges. Covington was reached the 2Dt. Meanwhile Confederate detachments the size of a small brigade blocked every road but one to the north. This was over the top of the Alleghenies and deemed impracticable. Nev•rtheless the raiders got over with all their artillery except four caissons. The sufferings and hardships of the raiders were shared to the full by the >r.r uers. Said the Examiner: “Nolan- . ;r ae can tell the sufferings of our . ,mi They were in saddle day and right save a few hours between midnight and day. They were beaten np by the officers with their swords—the only menus of arousing them—numb and sleepy. Some froze to death; others were taken from their horses senseless. They forded swollen streams and their clothes, stiff frozen, rattled as they rode. It rained in torrents and froze as it fell. In mountain paths the ice was cut from the roads before they ventured to ride over.” Averell reported a loss of 105 men drowned, wounded and missing. He captured 200 Confederates. Longstreet’s force was neutralized in east Tennessee. It took several weeks to repair the railroad and reopen his communications with Virginia. Until that was done any aggressive move on his part was out of the question. Grant finally decided to leave him undisturbed where he was. Other Events of the Week. On the 16th congress was considering a bill to revive the grade of lieutenant general in the United States army to afford means for promoting

Major General U. S. Grant to rank superior to all others. George Washington alone had held that rank. On Dee. 17th the merchant steamer Chesapeake, which had been seized at sea off the New England coast <sn the 7th by a piratical crew, was recaptured near nalifax. Nova Scotia. All but three of the pirates escaped to shore. The recapture was effected <by a United States gunboat, which had formerly seen service as a blockade runner into Confederate ports.' She had been captured on a -crulse by* the Federal navy and transformed into a warship. On the 21st the Confederate States government-formally notified Emperor Napoleon 111. of France that it had recognized the empire recently set up In Mexico to replace the republic, which was ' fighting for supremacy. The empire’-was bolstered up .by an army sent from Frapce. In retjum for its recognition of the Mexican empire the Confederacy asked for recognition by France.

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