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The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], Runaway. (search)
--Gen. Bragg's headquarters, at last accounts, were at Ringgold. The enemy seem disposed to push the advantage they have gained energetically, and the battle is likely to be resumed in a day or two between Ringgold and Dalton. The spireme of the three days battle is: the enemy gained what be fought for — Lookout Mountain — and the left wing of both armies badly whipped. Our loss on the left wing was more than counterbalanced by gains on our right. We lost Slecomb's, Cobb's, and Massengill's artillery on our left, and captured all of Sherman's horses on our right. A good many field and regimental officers are arriving, wounded. Great fears for Longstreet's safety are felt. Three thousand of the enemy are advancing towards Knoxville from Cleveland. Fighting was reported at Kingston last week between our cavalry and the Yankees. Gen. Wheeler was ordered to Kingston last Monday. Next day firing was heard at London, in the direction of Kingston. [second Dis
The Daily Dispatch: April 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], Affairs in East Tennessee. (search)
l Mexico in its palmiest days of anarchy and social crime. A low Dutchman, from from the political cesspools of Northern Europe, is in command of the district between Knoxville and Greenville. is said to have twelve thousand ruffians under his command staff fled along the railroad from Strawberry Plains to Mossy Creek. Their conduct is most wanton and outrageous, exceeding anything that has transpired during the war. A few days since they burned the fine mills and private dwelling of Mr. Massengill, on the Holston river Massengill was an old man some eighty years of age. His wife, about seventy years of age, was lying at the point of death when the ruffians applied the torch to her bed room. She asked them to carry her out of the room, and not to burn her alive in her own houses. After some hesitation the leader of the clan — a member of Brownlow's regiment — carried her out into the back yard on her bed, and remarked to the dying woman that she was getting her "Southern rights"