CAMP AT BEVERLY,
July 15, 1861.
SIR: I beg leave to make the following report of an expedition sent out by your order the evening of July 14, 1861. I started out with 224 men who volunteered for the service at 9 o’clock p.m. We went about six miles to the foot of a mountain (name unknown) under the guidance of a Mr. Hinkle, who we procured to aid us about two miles from this camp when being unable to proceed farther from obstructions in the road and the darkness of the night. We bivouacked until daylight when we went over the mountain about five miles to the headwaters of “Roaring Creek” to where the enemy were supposed to be encamped. We found it completely deserted, the entire force numbering 126 men, having left on Saturday morning.
We therefore returned back to camp at Beverly getting here at 10 o’clock the morning of July 15, 1861.
SAMUEL BEATTY,
Colonel, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteers.
Brigadier-General ROSECRANS.
Sources
Hewett, Janet B., Noah Andre Trudeau, and Bryce A, Suderow, eds., Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Pt. I, Vol. 1. Wilmington: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1994.
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