To Soldiers From T. A. Morris July 14 1861

              Brigade head Quarters,  Corricks
 

                                    Ford, Cheat river, Va, July 14, 1861

 

 

Soldiers

 

   In the name of our country, and our cause 

I thank you for your conduct in the pursuit of 

the enemy from Laurel Hill and for your gallant 

bearing when overtaking him at this point.  Your 

cheerful endurance of the privations you have 

endured undergone, and are now undergoing, from 

the necessarily scant supply of provisions and the 

hardships of the march of yesterday over roads 

almost impassable and through the storm of rain 

and of battle, is in the language of the imme- 

diate Commander of the advance column Capt. Benham, in his report 

to me, “most heroic and beyond all praise 

of mine”  and such as your “country only can 

fully appreciate and reward.”

 

 

 (Gen)          T. A. Morris
 

                    Brig. Gen.    Commander