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The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Philharmonic Association. (search)
th great care, from the most authentic sources, and may be relied on as correct in every particular. In the enumeration of troops no account is taken of those that were stationed at Lynchburg, Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Petersburg, Culpeper, Burkesville, and several other places in Virginia as late as September 20, and which then amounted to 30,000. If they are still there, they swell the aggregate by so much. In regard to the troops at Columbus and Hickman, under Gen. Polk and Gen. Pillow, although they are stated below at 15,000, yet it is believed that they really amount to 20,000. The whole number of troops in Kentucky is stated in this enumeration at only 88,000. But it has been for some weeks past the evident determination of the Confederate Government to wrest Kentucky from the Union by force; they have probably thrown into that State 25,000 more troops than I have any account of, swelling the number there to probably 95,000. It is certain that with less than 100,