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The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], Battle between Floyd and the enemy in Kentucky . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Kentucky trains safe. (search)
The Kentucky trains safe.
A letter from a soldier in General Smith's army known in this city, written on the 22d, states that all the trains are safely through the Cumberland Gap.
This makes the valuable stores brought from Kentucky safe beyond all peradventure.
Among them are 40 miles of wagons full of plunder; 1,000,000 yards of good Kentucky jeans; clothing, boots, shoes; 6,000 barrels of pickled pork; 200 wagon loads of bacon, 15,000 good mules and horses; 8,000 beeves; baddies hogs, &c. All worth falling back to protest.
From the North.
We continue our extracts from Northern papers of the 22d inst.:
The Kentucky Invasions.
The rebels seem determined to make Kentucky suffer for her attempted position of neutrality.--On three occasions a considerable part of the State has been overrun; first by Buckner, then by John Morgan, and lastly by Bragg and Kirby Smith, each time carrying off immense supplies.
A Louisville correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette sums up the result as follows:
Armies that in all hardly numbered sixty-five thousand have held nearly, if not quite, double their number in check for a month; have thrown the whole West into a spasm of alarm; have led Kentuckians to doubt the strength of the hold the National Government has on them, and the people of the Northern border to question their own safety from rebel invasion, and have made good their escape without punishment.
The results of this last invasion may be briefly summed up. The rebels got some recruits, but n