[Footnote: Official Records, vol.li.pt.

i.

p.
478.] On the 12th communication was opened, and I learned of Floyd's retreat across the Gauley.

I immediately moved forward the Eleventh and Twenty-sixth Ohio to attack Wise, who retreated from Hawk's Nest to the mouth of the Sunday Road, and upon my closer approach retired to Sewell Mountain.

[Footnote: _Id_., pp.