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The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Fortress News. (search)
behind it, but near by." Crittenden is hardly a man to shun danger, unless his conscience has made a coward of him. Capt. Ewing expects to have the brigade together in ten or twelve days, and try us again. He admits that the troops at Camp Shields are mainly Alabama and Mississippi men. He says that the skeletons of these two regiments were all they had in the fight.--Camp Shields is at Bolling Springs, on Cleark Fork of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland, and on the southern edge of Fentress county. It is distant just 52 miles from the battle-field. Statement of Capt. Spiller. This officer is an elderly man, who lived at Chattanooga, Tennessee. He appears to have been the Quartermaster of Gen. Zollicoffer's brigade, which, he states, was the First of the Department of the West, which Department was under the command of Gen. Crittenden. He has no great opinion of Crittenden, and calls both that General and Gen. Carroll, who was in command of the reserve whiskey bloats"