Here is a letter that was printed in the Indianapolis Daily Journal Oct. 14, 1861. C. D. Hand was a private in Bracken's Cavalry. He was a printer at the Journal before enlisting.

The Battle of Greenbriar. On the 3rd inst. Gen. Reynolds attacked the rebels in Camp Bartow, which is about 14 miles southeast of our camp, on Cheat Mountain Summit, on the Staunton Pike … the morning of the 3rd found Gen. Reynolds and staff, his bodyguard ― the Bracken Rangers ― and about 9,000 men on the road between Col. Kimball’s camp and Camp Bartow, which latter is on Greenbriar River, where we have lost many of our men ― where almost all the cavalry boys we have lost were shot, and he country in he neighborhood of which is as full of secessionists as it is of huckleberries. C. D. Hand

I am working on a unit history of The Bracken Rangers, so I would be interested if you get any first person info about them.

Robert Stevens