Hi- Can a person buy a copy of this book? Mark Combs Whitby Web master --- [email protected] wrote: > Jim Wood in his book, "Raleigh County West > Virginia," writes the following: > About 20 October 1861, Colonel Erastus B. Taylor of > the 7th Ohio, Third > Brigade, sent (William S.) Dunbar and 40 men to the > Clear Fork of Coal River to > guard the polls at an election precinct near where > his family lived. > Dunbar commented on the situation: > "So I went on and we had the election and just as we > closed the polls a man > came running across a field and told me that there > were 500 Rebel cavalry > following after us ... The man who gave me the news > was Jubal Stover of Cabin > Creek, Kanawha (County). He had run 7 or 8 miles > across a long mountain and was > nearly exhausted." > Does anyone know what group of Confederate cavalry > was in pursuit that day? > Sincerely, > > Mike Peters > [email protected] > ===== Man who loves Whitby WV __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus