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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Late Northern News. (search)
Late Northern News. Attempt to Capture a Yankee Steamboat on the Kanawha — The Administration and Gen. Wool--Order for the Release of Confederate Prisoners, &c., &c. The Cincinnati Commercial, of October 12th, contains the following special dispatch, dated "Gallipolis, October 11:" On arriving at the Red House Shoals, on the Kanawha river, this afternoon, the steamer Izetta, with a cargo of Government horses and wagons, was fired into by one hundred rebel cavalry, and ordered to land, which Captain Windsor declined doing. Rifle balls riddled the pilot house so thick and fast as to compel its abandonment, when Capt. Windsor wisely determined to 'bout ship, which he succeeded in doing with the engines alone, and descended the river, arriving here without material injury. The rebels fired about two hundred shots, first at the pilot house and then at the engines and boat generally. The balls passed through and through the cabin, texas, engine room, and steam pipe, but s
The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], A fast locomotive. (search)
From the army of the Kanawha. the retreat of Rosencranz--Gen. Floyd's Column on the March--appearance of an army in motion — an Incident, &c., &c. The Lynchburg Republican, of the 22d, contains an interesting letter from its editor, R. H. Glass, Esq., attached to General Floyd's staff, dated "Richmond Ferry, 20 miles west of Sewell, Oct. 12," from which we extract the following: The latest information in reference to the movements of Rosencranz is, that he has retired the last of his men from the south side of the Gauley, and is, probably, in hasty retreat with his main strength to the banks of the Ohio. He has probably left small detachments at Gauley Bridge and Carnifax's Ferry, to defend those passes, but this is only conjecture. We are little capable up here of judging the cause of this sudden backward movement of the enemy, but we have reasons to suppose that it was occasioned in great part by the conscious impossibility of breaking through our compact li