Frank Moore, ed. Vol. 5. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1863.
A company of the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania regiment, guarding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge at Paw Paw, were attacked by a superior rebel force and taken prisoners. At the same time a force of Union cavalry, under the command of Col. McReynolds, captured the encampment of the rebels, with two guns, ten wagons, and sixty horses.
Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood: October 1862