Report of Colorado State Board of Health Volume 5 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Letters To Wife And Daughters From Camp On Sewell's Mountain?Quotation From Colonel Taylor's Book?From Professor Wm. p. TRENT?FROM MR. DAVIS'S MEMORIAL ADDRESS?DE- FENSE OF SOUTHERN PORTS?CHRISTMAS, l861?THE GENERAL VISITS HIS FATHER'S GRAVE?COMMANDS, UNDER THE PRESIDENT, ALL THE ARMIES OP THE CONFEDERATE STATES The season being too far advanced to attempt any further movements away from our base of supplies, and the same reasons preventing any advance of the Federal forces, the campaign in this part of Virginia ended for the winter. In the Kanawha Valley, however, the enemy had been and were quite active. Large reinforcements under General Rosecrans were sent there to assist General Cox, the officer in command at that point. General Loring, leaving a sufficient force to watch the enemy at Cheat Mountain, moved the rest of his army to join the commands of Generals Floyd and Wise, who were opposing the advance of Cox. General Lee, about September 2oth, reached General Floyd's camp, and immediately proceeded to arrange the lines of defense. Shortly after his arrival there he wrote to my mother at the Hot Springs: "camp On Sewell's Mountain, "September 26, 1861. "I have just received, dear Mary, your letters of the17th and igth instants, with one from Robert. I have but little time for writing to-night, and will, therefore, write to you. . . . Having now disposed of business matters, I will say how glad I am to hear from you, and to learn that you have reached the Hot in safety, with daughter and Rob. I pray that its healing waters may benefit you all. I am glad to hear of Charlotte and the girls, and hope all will go well with them. I infer you received my letter written before leaving Valley Mountain, though you did not direct your letter 'via Lewisbur...