Summary:
Union General Robert Milroy forwards a December, 1861, report of an engagement in West Virginia in which the Confederates burned their camps and retreated to Staunton.

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CLEVELAND,

December 14, 1861.

Stevens sends me the following:

Gen. Milroy, with 700 men, met Gen. Johnson, of Georgia, with 2,000, at Alleghany Camp, West Virginia, yesterday, and after 3 hours' hard fighting defeated Johnson, with loss 200 killed, including many officers, and 30 prisoners. Johnson burned his camp and retreated to Staunton. Federal loss about 30.
A. STAGER,
Superintendent.

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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 5, Serial No. 5, Pages 456, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.