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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Public meeting in Memphis for the defence of the City. (search)
der construction. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to confer at once with our generals at Columbus, Ky., and urge upon them the necessity of immediately closing the Mississippi river at some point with formidable rafts or otherwise, under the supervision of a competent engineer. Laid on the table. The first, second, third and fourth resolutions were adopted without opposition. The fifth resolution was adopted, and the address which it called for was read by Col. J. T. Trezevant, as follows: To the Citizens of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana: The long threatened invasion of the Valley of the Mississippi is at our doors. The enemies of our rights and liberties — our wives and children — our homes and firesides — are moving down upon us by land and water, in overwhelming numbers. Within the next five days, perhaps, the great battle of the Mississippi will be fought at Columbus, Ky., and if our soldiers are then overpowe<