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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Buford or search for Buford in all documents.
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The Baltimore Gazette, of the 16th inst., has been received.
The following is copied from the editorial news summary:
From Western Kentucky.
On Wednesday morning last, Gen. Buford, in command of a Confederate force, appeared before Fort Halleck, at Columbus, Ky., and demanded its surrender, but allowed a respite of five hours in which to remove the women and children.
The latter were sent to Cairo, and in the meanwhile, two steamers arrived at Columbus from the lower Mississippi with three thousand veterans, on their way home on furlough.
These were landed, and it was believed would enable the commandant at Fort Halleck to make good his defence of that post.
Whether he was able to do so, or was obliged to capitulate, is left by the telegram in doubt.
The information on this point is singularly vague.
We are told that the steamer Olive Branch subsequently reached Cairo, and represented that there was fighting during the entire day; that when she