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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
esorted to measures of intimidation; he assumed dictatorial power which had never been conferred upon him, and on the 30th of August he issued a proclamation which threw the whole West into a state of excitement. He declared all slaves belonging to outposts at the South, but the only one of the kind which deserves notice was the encounter at Barnett's Mills on the 30th of August, where a party of Confederates attempted to surprise a Federal post, and were repulsed, leaving eighteen prisoners bhad taken in the war. Fremont thus fell into the opposite extreme of the error he had committed in his proclamation of August 30th, which had called forth Mr. Lincoln's condemnation. This arrangement was altogether to the advantage of Price, who, of Hatteras by the Federals. The latter, properly appreciating the importance of the forts they had captured on the 30th of August, had sent the Twentieth Indiana regiment to reinforce the small garrison that Butler had left there. Nor did they st