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The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Kentucky. (search)
From Kentucky. Combination of Generals Buckner's, Polk's, and Zollicoffer's forces — the recent skirmish at Bacon Creek — Admirable condition of the Confederate troops, etc. The following letter from Lebanon, Ky., to the Louisville Journal, will be interesting as giving our readers an insight into matters and things in that portion of the State: Leeanon, Ky., Oct. 16, 1861. As I informed you by telegraph last evening, three men passed through Lebanon yesterday afternoon on their way to their homes from the Southern Confederacy. One of the party was an old gentleman who resides in Mercer county. He has two sons in the Confederate army, and has visited Buckner's headquarters to see them. He was accompanied on his return by two young men from Fayette county, who say that they had gone South to join the army, but, as they would not receive recruits for a shorter period than three years, they determined to return home. A highly respected citizen of this
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], determined woman. (search)
avalry band, under a drenching rain that would have drowned the spirits of a less enthusiastic crowd, but a jollier set of fellows never set out upon an expedition, the object of which they knew nothing. The attack on the Seminole. A private letter from a gentleman on board the U. S. steam-sloop Seminole, on her late trip from Washington to Old Point, has been published in the Philadelphia Bulletin. The following are extracts: U. S. Steam-Sloop Seminole,off Fortress Monroe, Oct. 16, 1861. We arrived here this morning at 7 o'clock, having left Washington yesterday morning. Nothing very remarkable occurred on the way down to Quantico creek. At that point the steamer Pocahontas, which was some miles ahead of us, threw three or four shells into the bushes at Evansport, or Shipping Point, Va. The fire was not returned, and she proceeded on her way. As we neared the Point, at 10½ A. M., our decks were cleared for action, all hands at quarters, hatches closed and ever