CLOYD'S MOUNTAIN, Battle of. On 3 May 1864 Gen. George Crook of the Union army marched from Fayette, W. Va., to break the Virginia and T. Railroad at the New River bridge. He had 11 regiments of infantry and two batteries of artillery, in all about 6,100 men, brigaded under Col. H. G. Sided, C. B. White and R. B. Hayes. He marched through Ra leigh, drove a small Confederate cavalry force from Princeton and on the 8th reached Shan non's Bridge, seven miles from Dublin, where he was joined by 400 cavalry. Here he found next morning that the Confederates—three regiments and a battalion of infantry and two batteries— under Gen. A. G. Jenkins and Col. John McCausland, were barring his way, strongly posted behind log and rail breast worlcs, on a steep and thickly wooded spur of Cloyd's Mountain, with guns sweeping the road and open country in front. Crook opened on the position with artillery, and then, under cover of the timber, sent White with his own brigade and two regiments of Sickel's to turn the enetny's right, and the moment they were engaged Sickel and Hayes charged directly to the front across a meadow swept by artillery and musketry fire and up the steep ridge. Parts of the line were repulsed, again to rally and go forward, and after a hard contest, in which bayonets and clubbed muskets were used across the works, they were carried, the Confederates retreating to Dublin, leaving, as Crook reports, 230 unwounded men as prisoners, and two guns, in his hands. The Union loss was over 600,
that of the Confederates about 500. General Jenkins was mortally wounded and left on the field. Crook followed the retreating troops, and when near Dublin encountered about 500 of Gen. John H. Morgan's command, under Colonel Smith, that had come from Sattville and endeavored to cover McC,ausland's retreat. These Crook drove back and at night he oc cupied Dublin. On the 10th he marched to Newborn and thence to New River Bridge, which McCausland tried to save, but after a two-hours' artillery duel in which Crook had 11 men killed and wounded, he seized and de stroyed the bridge and the railroad for a consid erable distance, then marched by way of Union, Alderson's Ferry and Lewisburg to Meadow Bluff, which he reached on the 19th, his march harassed by the enemy's cavalry. Crook's en tire loss was 109 killed, 513 wounded and 72 missing. On his return march he was obliged to leave 200 of his wounded, with surgeons, who were captured. The Confederate loss, as reported, was 76 killed, 262 wounded and 200 missing or captured. Consult 'Official Rec ords) (Vol. XX XVII) ; Pond, (The Shenan doah Valley in 1864.)