Named Entity Results, Paducah (Kentucky, United States)

Doc. 31. the occupation of Paducah, Ky., by Gen. N. S. Grant, September 6. Cairo, Ill., September 11. t movements. Your correspondent has been absent at Paducah, which must be my apology for not writing sooner. received orders to convoy a large body of troops to Paducah. The Ninth Illinois regiment, formerly commanded bmed majestically up La Belle Riviere. We reached Paducah about eight o'clock Friday morning. The disembarkatake quarters in it. The report became current in Paducah that a large force of rebels from Tennessee were moeveral large coils of telegraph wire were seized at Paducah by our troops. The stampede of the inhabitants from Paducah was astonishing and immense, and ere this scarcely a hundred families are left here, out of a populUnion City and Columbus, and no immediate attack on Paducah is apprehended. Gen. C. F. Smith is now commanding at Paducah. At Cairo the greatest military activity prevails. A very large force is being rapidly formed i

Doc. 111. fight on the Tennessee River. Captain Foote's report. St. Louis, October 30, 1861. sir: The Conestoga, Lieut. Corn. Phelps, has again been up the Tennessee River as far as Eddyville, sixty-two miles distant from Paducah, with three companies of the Illinois regiment, under command of Major Phillips, and conjointly they have had a handsome and successful skirmish, in which the rebels broke and fled in every direction, leaving seven dead on the field. Our casualties cons Chicago Tribune gives the following account of this affair: On board Steamer Lake Erie No. 2. Eddyville, Ky., Oct. 26, 1861. Last evening, Major Phillips, with three hundred of the Ninth Illinois regiment, started on an expedition from Paducah. Stopping at Smithland, your correspondent determined to make one of the party. After getting a pilot and guide, and steaming up the Ohio a short distance, we returned and went up to what is called the Old Forge, where we left the boats for

urned, and you have been thrown into this vortex by the Government at Washington, aided by their Kentucky sympathizers. The pretended reason for the military occupation of the State, founded on the occupation of Columbus by Confederate troops, is uncandid and false. For, besides the fact that the invasion of Kentucky was a foregone conclusion at Washington, and that camps of soldiers were under arms in our midst to invade Tennessee, it is notorious that General Grant left Cairo to seize Paducah before the occupation of Columbus, while, in taking the latter place, the Confederate troops anticipated the Federal troops by less than an hour. For further proof of the insincerity of the false clamor about the invasion from Tennessee, the Confederate commander announced to your authorities that he occupied Columbus purely in self-defence, and stood ready at any moment to withdraw simultaneously with the Federal forces. To say that the Washington Government had a right to invade the Sta

rice's army in Missouri, and also from cutting off columns that I had been directed to send out from this place and Cape Girardeau, in pursuit of Jeff. Thompson. Knowing that Columbus was strongly garrisoned, I asked Gen. Smith, commanding at Paducah, Ky., to make demonstrations in the same direction. He did so by ordering a small force to Mayfield and another in the direction of Columbus, not to approach nearer, however, than twelve or fifteen miles. I also sent a small force on the Kentucky ned with three of our guns on them, together with the gunboats, and the way we dropped the shell among them was a caution. The firing did not cease till sundown. The whole thing was an awful bungle. The question is, where was the force from Paducah, and the force above, which left several days ago? Fifteen thousand, we thought, were there to engage the rebels at Columbus, while we were to take them at Belmont. We steamed slowly up stream, lying to occasionally and taking on fugitives,

Doc. 190. affair at Paducah, Ky. General Smith's order. Headquarters United States forces, Paducah, Ky., Nov. 27, 1861. General Orders No. 36. On the afternoon of the 25th inst., a grave breach of discipline was committed by a part of this command, chiefly, if not altogether, by officers and soldiers of the Eleventh Indiana regiment, in the raising of a flag over the house of a resident of this city; not, certainly, by the act of raising our flag, but by the manner of proceeding — tPaducah, Ky., Nov. 27, 1861. General Orders No. 36. On the afternoon of the 25th inst., a grave breach of discipline was committed by a part of this command, chiefly, if not altogether, by officers and soldiers of the Eleventh Indiana regiment, in the raising of a flag over the house of a resident of this city; not, certainly, by the act of raising our flag, but by the manner of proceeding — the attendant circumstances. The commanding General desires to address those engaged in this proceeding in a kindly spirit. He is aware they have subjected themselves to prosecution under the Articles of War. He is compelled to denounce the transaction as a great violation of good order and military discipline; but he is inclined to the belief that those engaged in it will, upon reflection, come to regard it in that light themselves. Had it been possible for him to have anticipated its occur