Confederate Gen. Albert G. Jenkins led 550 cavalrymen on a 500-mile raid from Salt Sulphur Springs from Aug. 22 to Sept. 12, 1862, attacking Federal forces, destroying military stores, capturing and paroling 300 Union soldiers, killing or wounding 1,000 others, destroying about 5,000 small arms, seizing funds from a U.S. paymaster, fording the Ohio River at Ravenswood to raise the Confederate flag in Ohio on Sept. 4, capturing Racine, recrossing the river, and ending the raid at Red House on the Kanawha River. On September 1, 1862, Jenkins and his cavalrymen stopped just east of Spencer, where Union Col. John C. Rathbone and the 11th West Virginia Infantry were stationed, and the next morning Jenkins deployed his forces on present-day Alvord and Goff Hills, with dismounted riders standing between the horses to form a long line that convinced the Federals they faced an overwhelming force. Jenkins then sent Maj. James W. Sweeney under a flag of truce to demand Rathbone's surrender, and although Rathbone's officers wanted to fight, he leaned toward capitulation and sent Maj. George C. Trimble with Sweeney to confirm the Confederate strength. After Trimble returned and urged surrender, Rathbone yielded without firing a shot, even though some Federals escaped easily and a courier rode to Ravenswood, about forty miles away, without being caught. Jenkins paroled his captives, reported that he had obtained fine arms that his men were compelled to destroy, and on September 3 the raiders rode on to Ripley. In December 1862, after a court of inquiry investigated the surrender, Gen. Jacob D. Cox, commanding the District of West Virginia, condemned the affair as a burlesque upon military operations in which the reverse of soldierly conduct had prevailed, and on January 6, 1863, Rathbone and Trimble were dismissed from the service for cowardly conduct in surrendering their command. After the war, however, President Andrew Johnson revoked Rathbone's dismissal and ordered Trimble honorably discharged.