Bobert? Any of you others who re-enact and/or know your stuff, help please!*bg*

I am transcribing old family documents, many of which came from my great-great-grandfather, Abraham Forsythe, who was a Rebel scout/spy. Near as I can tell he was with either Hounshell's Battallion and/ Thurmond's Partisan Rangers.

BUT, my question has to do with old-fashioned handwriting and place names for the Union in WVa, I think. What I am stumped on is a Pass for my ggreat-grandmother to pass safely through enemy lines. It is printed with the blanks filled in by hand. Ah, there's the rub! I can read everything except the name of the town or camp. It looks like maybe "Hawk Fairly?" It is definitely WVa. It is hand-dated May 1862. It gives the place name with this printed above it: "No. 83 Head-Quarters(sic), Mountain Department."

The reason I think it is a Union pass is it says, in part, "This pass is given with the understanding that if the party receiving it be found hereafter in arms against the Government of the United States, or aiding or abetting its enemies, the penalty will be death."

Anyway, do any of you know anything about place names for Union headquarters in the mountains, there? Or, does that unlikely name ring a bell? I could email the image to anyone who might be able to decipher it. I have always been good at that from my days of transcribing doctors' prescriptions into a record book, but this one has me stumped. I've also not gotten anywhere on the usual genealogy sites.

It could also be Hauf/s Gairly? The Gairly looks really definite, but I know that must be wrong!

THANKS!

katpuzzled&cross-eyed:-)