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June 2, 1861 – Ohio Troops in Western Virginia
On Friday, Cols. Kelly’s and Irvine’s regiments were at the burnt bridges on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, four miles beyond Mannington, and sixty miles from Wheeling. These bridges were so far restored that trains with troops passed over.
A detachment of the Wheeling regiment was fired into at Glover’s Gap, by a rebel. He would have fired into the second train, but was shot by men who got out of the first train at a curve.