Mobile Register

July 11, 1861

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A party of Virginia cavalry, says a special dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer, surprised the unionists at the mouth of the Great Kanawha, on the Virginia side, and captured the two delegates from Mason county to the Wheeling Convention, who were seized in their beds and for whose arrest orders had been sent from Richmond for treason against the State.  The cavalry was commanded by Ex-Congressman A. G. Jenkins.  By way of reprisal, a lot of the Lincoln troops proceeded up the Kanawha, from Gallipolis, Ohio, and arrested twenty-five Virginians at Point Pleasant, for being secessionists.

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]