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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., To Gettysburg and back again. (search)
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Index. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , October (search)
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 7 : military operations in Missouri , New Mexico , and Eastern Kentucky --capture of Fort Henry . (search)
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 8 : the siege and capture of Fort Donelson . (search)
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 9 : events at Nashville , Columbus , New Madrid, Island number10 , and Pea Ridge . (search)
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Iii. Kentucky --Tennessee --Alabama . (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 115 (search)
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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 rs were taken from the enemy; also seven negroes and thirty-one horses, eleven mules, two transportation wagons, a large number of saddles, muskets, rifles, shot-guns, sabres, knives, &c.
Lieut. Corn. Phelps, and the officers and crew of the Conestoga, as well as Major Phillips and his men, are deserving of the highest credit for their bearing in this expedition.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. H. Foote, Captain U. S. Navy, &c.
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