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The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Yankees at Prentiss. (search)
The Yankees at Prentiss. A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal, writing from Camp Londell, Miss., Sept. 17th, furnishes the following: Last Sunday, the 14th inst., will be a day long to be remembered by the citizens of this vicinity.--About 3½ o'clock P. M. the pickets in the courthouse at Prentiss, Bolivar county, Miss., discovered the smoke of boats up the river, which was evidently coming down. A courier was immediately dispatched to Capt. C. R. Moyson, commanding a detached squadron, consisting of company E, Capt. Moyson's own company, with detachments from companies A and B, Starnes's cavalry, informing him of the near approach of the enemy's fleet.--Immediately upon the captain's receiving the information, "boots and saddles" were sounding, when the command marched to the river, just below General Charles Clark's plantation, and concealed themselves in a grove of timber, and quietly awaited the arrival of the foe. They were not long kept in suspense, for about five