Summary:
Confederate Colonel George Hull reports to Colonel John Baldwin, commanding at
Staunton, on a January, 1862, battle at Huntersville.
Col. JOHN B. BALDWIN, Cmdg. Post, Staunton, Va.
POST MONTEREY, VA.,
January 4, 1862.
COL.:
Yesterday about 1 o'clock the enemy advanced and took possession of Huntersville. Our forces offered but little resistance, their numbers, as I understand from a member of the Tennessee cavalry, begging only about some 200 men, while that of the enemy could not be correctly estimated, but supposed to be about 4,500.
Our command at Huntersville is now on its road to this place and will be in to-night. I cannot give you an account of the fight, but sure it is that the town and all our stores are in the hands of the enemy, unless it be that a barn, in which some of the commissary stores were placed, was burned, as fire was communicated to it; but it might have been extinguished by the enemy, who were near at the time of setting fire to it. Nothing new from Alleghany.
Very respectfully, yours,
GEO. W. HULL,
Col., Cmdg. Post.
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 501, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
