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Wikas’ Mills, Dec. 18, 1861.Mrsn, Editors t] arrived hi home jajwrrtny *nd found ihniour Union buy* w«re doing » good bua-in«*» In ridding mar county of sterah.On bat ThuratUy night Cnpt- Lit linger'a together with u pert or CrtpL Peirpotntanod SioipAon11 men, numbering I ti all at out one hundred mid twenty-five left here fur the Big Ih tid. They were met there at daylight, by a beat acvetuy fivo in* a from the oil well* nml li*wl everything arranged to capture oU the anccuvin ere#, but they hud ftfd and tiol «L iuhii of llieio was lo he found.A portion of the men under Capt. Boggs kept on up the west fork in purmuitof them -■ ml rame upon a party, killing: aura* right or nine, captured wme horse* mid caule dud put the rrat to flight.Gftpt «**»•* - hi*. aKti ^inr *r *JJparty to nnoiber - place, and killed three, wounded another, and cap tuned one borsn. They killed Peter Sowertiurn who if one oF (be riogludertof the tnorcaatn er*iT,Cuptu Luafnjrer i* atill oat la cmjn-unr-wttb (tftefb man. He will be reinforced , to-day by. some mnre. I think our county trill soon be freed from tbe*« moccasin run- ] gera* Not one of otir hoya pot hurt.Your*, with reaped.J. U, Parse*, J i _ r t
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Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, West Virginia, US
Fri, Dec 20, 1861
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