ROCKY GAP, Engagement at. Oh 5 Aug. 1863 Gen. W. W. Averell, with a brigade of cavalry and mounted infantry and a six-gun battery, left Winchetser, Va., for a raid into West Virginia, which was to be continued to Lewisburg and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. He moved by way of Wardensville to Moorefield and to the upper valley of• the south branch of the Potomac, and then to Hunters vile, driving back Cola W. L. Jackson's cavalry. As he approached White Sulphur Springs, on the morning of the 26th, he encountered Col. Geo. S. Patton, who, with four small organiza tions of infantry, two battalions of cavalry and a battery, in all about men and four guns, had been ordered to intercept and had taken position at Rocky Gap, the Junction of the Huntersville road with the Lewisburg and Kanawha turnpike. Patton was strongly posted and Averell opened upon him with artillery and disabled two of his guns; but successive charges by Averell's dismounted force, with efforts to flank him, continued during the entire day, failed to dislodge him, and at night, after nine hours' fighting, the contending forces occupied the same positions as in the morning. Averell
intended to renew the fight next morning, but, learning that Patton had received reinforce ments from Lewisburg, made arrangements to withdraw. At 10 A.M. Patton attacked his left and half an hour later Averell ordered a re treat, which was conducted in good order on the road to Warm Springs, and thence by way of Huntersville to Beverly, which was reached on 31 August. The Union loss was 25 killed, 125 wounded and 67 missing, a total of 217; the Confederate loss was 20 killed, 129 wounded and 13 missing, a total of 162.