DECEMBER 25, 1862.:Reconnaissance from Martinsburg to Charlestown, W.Va.
Report of Brig. Gen. Benjamin F. Kelley, U. S. Army.
Series 1, Volume 21, p. 704
HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,
Baltimore, Md., December 25, 1862.
Just received the following telegram from Brigadier-General Kelley, at Cumberland:
Lieutenant Vermilyea, First New York Cavalry, with 40 men, went from Martinsburg to-day on a reconnaissance to Charlestown, in Jefferson County, and found there about 60 men of the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry (rebel), Captain Boyle's company. Our men charged them at once and drove them out of town; captured 2 prisoners, horses, arms, & c. One of the prisoners is a son of the Hon. Andrew Hunter.
JOHN E. WOOL,
Major-General.
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,
General-in-Chief, Washington, D. C.
Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood: December 1862