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The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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on, and then standing on guard for two nights. And the best thing that Portsmouth could do would be to help get up a camp somewhere in the upper end of this State, as it would be a great protection for her, for, if they should clean out this place and Grayson, they would have a clean sweep for her. As I am a sergeant of the guard to-night, I thought I would write and give you the full particulars of our proceedings out here. A letter from Catlettsburg, Ky., dated Oct. 19, from S. S. Hampton, Lieut. Col. 8th Ky. regiment, at Camp Douglas, (Lincolnites,) says: We last night learned through some thirty five Union men, who scattered through the woods and arrived here from Pike county, that the rebels have come into Prestonsburg in force, from Virginia, to the number of seven thousand, well armed and equipped, and have extended their pickets down near Peach Orchard, forty miles from this place. Every person is fleeing before them. Do whatever you can in men and arms. I