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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, September (search)
th small arms from Columbus and Chalk Bluffs, Kentucky.--(Doc. 29.) This afternoon, Colonel N. G. Williams, of the Third Iowa regiment, with eleven hundred Federal troops, Kansas and Iowa Third, ire about one and a half hours. One man (Federal) had his foot taken off by a cannon ball. Colonel Williams retreated on two trains west to Hudson, Mo., leaving a number of horses and part of his camp utensils in the hands of the rebels. Col. Williams had no artillery. Gen. Hurlbut got as far as Hudson, Mo., from Brookfield, with two hundred and fifty men, to reinforce Williams. When he arrivWilliams. When he arrived there, Williams was at Clarence, on his retreat.--N. Y. Commercial, Sept. 10. This day the confederates fired from an eminence at Great Falls, on the Potomac, sixteen miles from Washington, Williams was at Clarence, on his retreat.--N. Y. Commercial, Sept. 10. This day the confederates fired from an eminence at Great Falls, on the Potomac, sixteen miles from Washington, upon a body of national troops on the Maryland side. Their rifled cannon, although perhaps a hundred times discharged, wounded only one of the men. The rebels then attempted to ford the river, by con