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The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
bated visibly. Still they came on, though unsteadily, our troops still raking them with both cannon and musketry. When within one hundred yards of our front, they broke, and the greater part fell back in disorder. A considerable body took refuge under the crest of a hill, in front of our works, and there stuck. It was for a time believed by us that they were preparing to charge upon our position. After firing shrapnel at them for a considerable length of time without dislodging them, Captain Lyle, with forty of our men, sallied out on a reconnaissance. He went down upon the Yankees at a pas de charge and drove them out of their position, capturing four hundred prisoners, among whom were several commissioned officers, and seven stands of colors. Night coming on, we made no pursuit of the main body. About five o'clock the same evening, our men in front of Fort Harrison, desiring to know what the Yankees had there, opened upon the fort with mortars. Our bombs fell splendidly,
The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], What will they do with us? (search)
irginia cavalry; J. Brigg and Hoffman Gilmor, (brother of the noted guerrilla chief,) Second Maryland cavalry; John M. Rafter, J. D. Lynn, Wm. Harkness, James McNeal, R. P. Tubb, of McNeil's Independent Rangers; and J. Tavener, citizen. They are to be kept in confinement, and receive nothing but the army ration, which is more than an ordinary man can eat. Confederate troops Attempting to cross the Mississippi. The Memphis Bulletin says that a large number of Confederates, including Lyle's command, six hundred strong, are reported on the Arkansas side of the river, near Mound City, under General Rollins, evidently intending, if possible, to cross the river into Tennessee. Terrible conflagration in Philadelphia — horrible scenes. A terrible and fatal conflagration occurred in Philadelphia on the 8th instant, about 3 o'clock in the morning.--It broke out in a warehouse filled with petroleum oil. The Bulletin says: The flames spread through the greater part of it
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