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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the West. (search)
further demonstrations, and so on. All of these are, of course, pure fabrications, "full of round and fury, and signifying nothing." Troops escaped from Island no.10 still continue to arrive here, and bring exciting accounts of their adventures by the way.--Some of them waded for miles up to their armpits in water; some have been drowned and last, and all the survivors are thoroughly worn down and exhausted by their terrible journey. The names of some of the officers captured are: Col. Henderson, Lieut. Col. T. Avery, (formerly member of Congress from this State,) Col. Baker, Col. Smith, and Lieut. R. D. Baugh, formerly Mayor of Memphis. A Surgeon of one of the Alabama regiments, who remained until Wednesday night, and then made his escape in the disguise of a farmer, informed me that he had a long in review with Gens. Pope and Payne, in the course of which the former stated that he should be in Memphis within ten days. He said also that he could have taken I and No. 1
The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War. (search)
eir steps. Our cavalry finding it impossible to overtake the retreating enemy, abandoned the pursuit, and returned home, but vengeance did not stop here. Newman and his band as they came up had captured some ten or fifteen of the most prominent Secessionists in Wyoming, and there were brave hearts lying in ambush to avenge these and the many other outrages committed upon good and loyal citizens of that county. Newman was in advance of the main force some miles riding beside W. H.Henderson one of his captives, when he desired some person party conceated behind a cluster of dwarf laurel, about 25 steps from the road. He immediately halted and ordered a surrender; this not being obeyed, he discharged two barrels of his revolver at the man, and leaped from his horse, whereupon the brave and intrepid avenger of his country's wrongs stepped out in fall view; a simultaneous fire occurred, and Ferdinand Newman fell dead — a rifle ball entered his brain just above the right eye. Hi