The following is transcribed from Harper's Weekly, Journal of Civilization, dated July 6, 1861.

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THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI

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          The illustrate above is the Battle of Philippi, which took place on 8 June. We published an account of the brilliant affair in a recent number; and here we will only add, that a few companies of Indiana, Ohio, and Virginia volunteers entirely demolished a large force of secessionists assembled at Philippi, under the command of Colonel Porterfield, driving them out of the place, with the loss of all their baggage and moste of their arms. Our artist writes:

          The scene shown in the picture is the principal street in Philippi. The large building on the left is the Courthouse o Barbour County, Virginia, now occupied as the head-quarters of the Federal troops. The roof of the hotel just beyond the Court-house shows plainly the effects of a cannon-ball. I was told that it carried away a secession flag. The Union flag is now floating in its place. The road between the Court-house and hotel is the one by which Colonel Kelly entered the town. The intention was for him to have come in by the road which you see turning to the right at the extreme end of the picture. About a stone's-throw beyond this turn is where Colonel Kelly left.