Battle of Cheat Mountain - Aftermath

Aftermath

Reynolds' forces lost a total of 88 casualties (10 killed, 14 wounded, and 64 captured); Confederate casualties were unreported, but Reynolds and Kimball claimed 100 Confederates were killed and twenty were captured. The battle had little effect on either the campaign or the war; both forces after the battle were in positions similar to their positions before the battle. In October, Lee left Cheat Mountain for Sewell Mountain (West Virginia) in the Kanawha River valley with the troops of Wiliam B. Floyd and Henry Wise, but he was forced to cancel the offensive operations he had planned for due to low supplies and bad weather. Lee was recalled to Richmond on October 30 after achieving little in western Virginia.