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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Halleck's misrepresentations — Beauregard's Reply. (search)
s from the enemy, and 15,000 stand of arms captured. Thousands of the enemy are throwing away their arms. A farmer says that when Beauregard learned that Col. Elliott bad cut the railroad on his line of retreat he became frantic, and told his men to save themselves the best way they could. We have captured nine locomoticommunicated to me the day before, and I had given in consequence all necessary orders; but a part of my forces passed Booneville an hour before the arrival of Col. Elliott's command, and the other part arrived just in time to drive it away and liberate the convalescents captured; unfortunately, however, not in time to save four of the sickle, who were barbarously consumed in the station-house! Let Col. Elliott's name descend to infamy as the author of such a revolting deed. Gen. Halleck did not capture nins locomotives. It was only by the accidental destruction of a bridge before some trains had passed that he got seven engines in a damaged condition,