1861

     April 17.  The Ordinance of Secession was adopted by the Virginia Convention of Richmond.
     April 18.  Harper's Ferry was abandoned by the Federal troops.  Lieutenant Roger Jones, the com-

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mandant, learning that more than 2,000 Virginia troops were advancing to attack him, set fire to the United States armory and machine shops and retreated into Pennsylvania.  Fifteen minutes after he left Harper's Ferry the Virginia forces arrived.
     April 23.  General Robert E. Lee assigned to the command of Virginia's land and naval forces.
     April 27.  Colonel T. J. Jackson assigned to the command of the Virginia forces at Harper's Ferry.
     May 1.  Governor Letcher calls out the Virginia militia.
     May 4.  Colonel George A. Porterfield assigned to the command of all the Confederate forces in Northwestern Virginia.
     May 10.  General Robert E. Lee assigned to the command of the forces of the Confederate States serving in Virginia.
     May 13.  General George B. McClellan assigned to the command of the Department of the Ohio, embracing West Virginia.
     May 14.  The Confederates at Harper's Ferry seized a train of cars.
     May 15.  General Joseph E. Johnston assigned to the command of Confederate troops near Harper's Ferry
     May 22.  Bailey Brown was killed by a Confederate picket at Fetterman, Taylor county.  Brown was the first enlisted man of the United States volunteer service killed in the war.
     May 26.  Federal Forces from beyond the Ohio and those about Wheeling began to move against Grafton where Confederates, under Colonel Porterfield, had established themselves.
     May 27.  Captain Christian Roberts were killed

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Big Sewell and were repulsed.  General Scammon was marching to attract the attention of the Confederate General Echols, and thereby assist Averell on his Salem raid.
     December 11.  Confederates under General W. L. Jackson were defeated at Marlin Bottom, Pocahontas county, by Colonel Augustus Moor, who marched into that country to assist Averell, by attracting the attention of the Rebels.
     December 12.  Lewisburg was taken by General Scammon.  General Echols retreating.
     December 12.  Troops sent by General Scammon drove Confederates across the Greenbrier river.
     December 13.  Skirmish at Hurricane Bridge.  Confederates attacked a small force of Federals under Captain Young.  Both sides retreated.
     December 14.  Skirmish on the Blue Sulphur Road, near Meadow Bluff.  Lieutenant H. G. Otis, with 29 men was attacked by Rebel guerrillas under William Thurmond.  The guerrillas fled, having killed 2 and wounded 4 Union soldiers, while their own loss was 2.

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     January 2.  Confederates under General Fitzhugh Lee invaded the South Branch Valley.  This raid, following so soon after Averell's Salem raid, was meant as a retaliation for the destruction at Salem.  The weather was so cold and the Shenandoah Mountains so icy that Lee would not cross with artillery, and he abandoned his guns and moved forward with his troops.
     January 3.  Petersburg, Grant county, besieged by Fitzhugh Lee.
     January 3.  An empty train of 40 wagons, returning from Petersburg to Keyser, was captured by Confederates.

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     January 6.  Romney was occupied by Fitzhugh Lee.
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     June 6.  Skirmish at Panther Gap.  The Rebels were defeated by Colonel D. Frost.
     June 6.  Fight near Moorefield.  Eighty Federals under Captain Hart were attacked and lost four killed and six wounded, but defeated the Confederates.
     June 10.  Colonel Thompson was defeated near Kabletown by Major Gilmore.
     June 19.  Captain Boggs, with 30 West Virginia State troops from Pendleton county, known as Swamp Dragons, was attacked near Petersburg by Lieutenant Dolen, with a portion of McNeill's company.  The Confederates were at first successful, but finally were defeated, and Lieutenant Dolen was killed.
     June 26.  Captain McNeill, with 60 Confederates, attacked Captain Law and 100 men at Springfield, Hampshire county.  The Federals were defeated losing 60 prisoners and 100 horses.
     June 3.  Skirmish at Leetown.  Confederates under General Ransom attacked and defeated Colonel Mulligan after a severe fight.  A large Confederate army under General Early was invading West Virginia and Maryland, penetrating as far as Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
     June 3.  Confederates under Gilmor attacked Union troops at Darkesville, Berkeley county, and were defeated.
     July 3.  General Early captured Martinsburg.
     July 3. Skirmish at North River Mills, Hamshire county.
     July 4.  General Imboden attacked an armored car and a blockhouse at the South Branch Bridge, in Hampshire county.  He blew the car up with a shell.

END OF HISTORY OF MONONGALIA COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA