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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
Independence, Mo., was attacked by Confederate guerrillas on the 11th, under Cols. Hughes and Quantrell, and the Federal force captured after an hour's fighting. The Federal report their own loss at 20 killed. The steamers Commodore, John Brooks, State of Mains, and ship Louisiana, arrived at Philadelphia on Monday with an aggregate of 1,400 sick and disabled soldiers from the hospitals of the Peninsula. Three hundred and eighty-four bales of cotton arrived at Cincinnati on Tuesday. The Lady Pike brought 348 and the Major Anderson 36 bales. From Fortress Monroe the news is quite meagre. Commodore Porter's mortar fleet was still at anchor in the Roads. "Great satisfaction" was felt at Norfolk, Suffolk, and in their respective vicinities, in consequence of the determination of the Generals in command there to exact the oath of allegiance from all the inhabitants, or to compel the recusants "to leave and seek protection under the so-called Confederate Government.