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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
Mr. D. was arrested twice on his travels, and detained in different camps for some six or seven hours. By representing himself as an escaped Unionist from the South, he was furnished with passes and treated very handsomely by the officers in the camps, and on several occasions invited to dine with them. On his return he was obliged to travel on foot, over mountains, &c., in order to avoid the Lincolnite camps. Whilst in Kentucky he heard of the willful murder of four travelers near Madisonville by some of the fiends. In addition to this they were arresting citizens suspected of secession proclivities and sending them off as prisoners to Washington and New York. The Kentuckians, however, especially in Southern Kentucky, were volunteering almost unanimously in the Confederate ranks. The news of the capture of Port Royal reached Mr. D. while in Illinois, where it was represented that Charleston had also been taken. The news caused great rejoicing among all classes. They sa