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“Another rumour of a fight on Cheat Mountain…,”—Diary of a Southern Refugee, Judith White McGuire.

October 8, 2011

Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War by Judith White McGuire

October 8.—At church yesterday; the services interesting; the Communion administered. Rev. Dr. A. delivered an address, perhaps a little too political for the occasion.

The news from Western Virginia not confirmed. Another rumour of a fight on Cheat Mountain, in which General Jackson, with some regiments of Georgians, repulsed the Federal General Reynolds.

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