Summary:
Union Major H. C. Rized writes to Colonel N. Wilkinson concerning a January, 1865, Confederate raid on Beverly. Rized reports that the Confederates made off to Staunton with the prisoners.

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Col. N. WILKINSON,
Clarksburg:

BUCKHANNON, W. VA.,

January 12, 1865.

About 115 men have arrived from Beverly, nearly all of whom are of the Eighth Ohio: forty-seven are armed. One man says he left Beverly at 2 o'clock yesterday. Rebels were making off with the plunder as rapidly as possible. Quarters and bridge are all that was burned. Thinks they started for Staunton with prisoners, &c. Estimates their force at about 900. I started a cavalry scout for Beverly at about 2 o'clock afternoon.

H. C. RIZED,
Maj.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 46, Serial No. 96, Pages 112, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.