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.
The troops were everywhere received with enthusiasm and generous hospitality, the country people bringing substantial rations. The railroad will be thoroughly guarded from Wheeling to Grafton, and the communication kept open.
The front of Col. Steedman’s regiment, the Fourteenth, was in Grafton, on Friday night, and the troops advanced from Parkersburg under Steedman’s command, were between Tollgate, forty-six miles east of Parkersburg, and Petroleum.
Daily Ohio Statesman, Columbus, OH