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The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terms of the Dispatch. (search)
was at Muldraugh's hill, an excellent strategic point, only thirty-three miles from Louisville. A few days will doubtless develop startling events in Kentucky. The news from Missouri is through Northern sources; yet even these seem more favorable than otherwise to the Southern cause. Our armies in Virginia remain in very much the same situation as at last accounts. There has probably been no engagement yet in the West, and it is hoped that reinforcements will reach Gens. Floyd and Wise in time to insure their commands against disaster. The Central train has brought no rumors for two days past, though a few prisoners have arrived to help fill up the places of these who have departed for the sunny South. One passenger said that our troops had advanced as near to Washington as they could get and were going into winter quarters!--We think the winter quarters will not be on this side of the Potomac. Much activity was observable at the War department on Saturday. There we
The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terms of the Dispatch. (search)
ten miles exploration toward Lewisburg. Floyd had been telling that the Federal loss was tremendous — over two hundred killed first fire — while his own was almost nothing. He did not explain why, after winning such a victory, he retreated. Wise is down southeast of Hawk's Nest letting Cox alone severely. McCook took several prisoners yesterday, in an armed reconnaissance across the river. Most of our wounded are doing very well. [second Dispatch.] Camp Scott, Va., Sept. 15. --General Cox is here to-day for an interview with Gen. Rosencranz. He moved the main body of his army from Gauley Bridge towards Lewisburg. Wise and Floyd are both retreating as fast as possible. Gen. Schenck is at Grafton, pushing along matters finely for active movements. Several regular officers are ordered to report immediately to headquarters. If the people of Ohio wish to see the campaign in Western Virginia still more successful, let them hurry forward troops immediate
The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Louisville Journal (search)
occupancy of the camp designated by General Gwynn for our troops, and also Fort Clarke; and the crowding into Fort Hatteras, against his express injunction, of nearly four times as many men as it could usefully hold, are all features of this transaction which mark it as one of the most extraordinary of the age. From Gen. Floyd's camp. Col. R. H. Glass writes from Floyd's camp, Sept. 15, an interesting letter to the Lynchburg Republican, from which we make an extract: *** Had Gen. Wise reinforced us with 1,000 men, or, had it been possible for the N. Carolina and Georgia regiments to have come to our assistance in time, we could doubtless have whipped Rosencranz as badly on the morning of the 11th as we had done on the evening of the 10th. Indeed, we think it highly probable we could have whipped him anyhow; but, as retreat would have been impossible under the fire of the enemy, and in the possible event of a defeat we should all have been slaughtered or captured, our p