anon., Tioga Rifles, Co. E, 13^th Pa. Res.,

in: Wellsboro Agitator.

New Creek, Virginia –

“We left Cumberland and followed up the Potomac River to where we are now encamped. Before we left Cumberland four of our company, and a few men each of the other companies to number sixty, with Col. Kane at their head, started up for three or four miles below this place. That was on Friday night. On Saturday morning we all started down here on the care of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road to this place. Next morning about 3 o’clock Kane’s men were distributed in different places.

“Our boys were attacked 105 horsemen. I do not know how the men were placed, but when the secessionists went back they only numbered 85. Five of Niles Company killed a man each, viz., Wm. English, Washington Campbell, William Morrison, Andrew Kriner and George Huck. There were others of them who fired too, and they found eight other bodies that day. One rebel lieutenant had __ ball holes through him. A number of horses were picked up. One of our men was in the tavern as a spy, when fifty of the rebels rode up. He was up stairs. The rebels killed a man on the tavern stoop, and our spy hid under ____ whilst the rest of our men below there but in sight of them to attract their attention from him. The rebels rushed down upon our men, who at once retreated into a house and poured the shot into them so they were glad to run. To make a long story short our sixty scouts drove 105 cavalry and 300 infantry killing about twenty of them.

“Last night two regiments of Ohio men camped within two miles of us and started for Romney this morning. Our Regiments, Simmons and Biddles, are following them, excepting our company and one company from Simmons Regiment who are left to take care of the camp. It is cold weather here, more so than I ever saw in Wellsboro at this time of year.”

[WA: 7-24-1861].