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The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Southern News. (search)
the brilliant achievement of some of our cavalry have already reached you. The partitioners of the engagement are about these. On the afternoon of the 28th, about three hundred of Colonel Forrest's cavalry encountered near the same number of Jim Jackson's (Federal) cavalry, about 9 miles south of the town of Rumsey, on Green river. The Federals were led by Major, formerly Captain W. S. D. Megowan, who you remember was at one time high sheriff of the city of Louisville. As the two narlieaccomplished gentleman, and brave to the highest degree. Col. Forrest is from Mississippi, though his cavalry are mostly Kentuckians. A part of his cavalry was the first that passed through that place last summer on their way to Camp Boone. Jim Jackson is at Washington, under pretext of resigning, if the Cameron policy is not modified. His real object there, however, it to fill his sear in Congress, and draw double pay as officer in Lincoln's army and a tool in his Congress. Federal ou
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Try a gentleman, (search)
ear the town of Bath, and met a small body of the enemy. It was in this skirmish that Mr. Wm. Exall, of this city, was mortally wounded, and 3d Lieut, James Paine, also of Company "F," received a severe, though not dangerous wound in the neck.--No further casualties are reported on our side Twelve Yankees were taken prisoners on the same evening, and it is probable that some of the enemy were killed. We have not received any definite intelligence in regard to other skirmishes, in which the 48th Virginia (Col Campbell) and an Arkansas regiment are said to have been engaged; though from the fact Gen. Jackson's brigade occupies the neighborhood of the town of Bath, and that no Federals are on this side of the Potomac at that point, we infer that we have got the best of it so far. It is stated that there were some few casualties in the Arkansas regiment above mentioned, but no particulars have been received. The recent captures of prisoners, we are reliably informed, amount to thirty.