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The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 23 (search)
were cut off from all passes of escape, and that artillery would be brought to bear on them in a short time, until their ammunition gave out, and the citizens had begged them to give up, for the Federals were about to burn the town. Col. Morgan arrived at this place with 40 men the next day. I arrived some four hours later with 31. Our men have been coming in at all hours since. We have now here something over 100, and are expecting more. Gen. Dumont, Col. Woolford, and a Pennsylvania Colonel were taken prisoners early in the action in town, and as soon as they made known their rank, their swords were restored to them again by our gallant Colonel M. The fight was kept up the whole distance from Lebanon to Carthage, and a volley of 60 guns were fired at Colonel Morgan as he climbed the bank after crossing the river. The account is necessarily very imperfect in its most interesting details, for the time that was allotted for writing before the leaving of the gentle
The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], Drafting the "Solid Men." (search)
Hard bodies. --A few days ago while the friends of some of the brave men who recently fell victims to the insane fury of Lincoln's myrmidons were searching in the neighborhood of Gaines's mill for their bodies, they struck on something which had such a hard feeling that though duly labelled as a Pennsylvania Colonel, they were induced to exhume the body, which proved to be a splendid 24 pounder brass howitzer. Several other "Colonels" of a similar kind were afterwards dug up. The parties engaged in the search also found a metallic burial case, but on removing the plate the body of a Federal Lieutenant appeared, and it was decently interred.