The Rebels under
Marshall Routed at Pound Gap – Camp Equipage and Arms Captured.
(Correspondence of
the Cincinnati Gazette.)
CAMP BROWNLOW, PIKETON,
KY.,
March 18th, 1862.
Gen. Garfield left this camp on the 14th inst., at the head
of six hundred men, detailed in about equal numbers from the 42d and 40th Ohio
and 22d Kentucky regiments and McLaughlin’s Cavalry, destined for Pound Gap. –
That point was reached on Sunday morning last, after a march of thirty-seven
miles, performed in something less than two days. The enemy were taken by surprise, dislodged
from their stronghold, and driven routed and discomfited from the field. The entire camp, with its equipage,
consisting of numerous log huts, canvas tents, subsistence stores, wagons, and
all the trappings of camp life, together with some three hundred squirrel
rifles, fell into our possession. In the
absence of means of transportation, all but what the boys could carry on their
backs, was submitted to the flames. It
was a brilliant victory, and the entire detachment returned this morning,
without loss or damage to a man. With
many hearty congratulations for recent brilliant victories everywhere and all
around the land.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 1
