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The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], A "Fast" young man. (search)
esterday bring us the following items: Movements of Mississippi troops. The Mississippian, of the 11th, says: We learn from a private source that Gen. Alcorn, who left Inka in command of two Mississippi regiments, is now encamped near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and is in command of all the forces south of Green river anoners. It is reported that he has been ordered to take and hold the locks on Green river, and as the enemy was in possession of them with a force about equal to Gen. Alcorn's, we may soon expect an engagement in that quarter. Those who know Gen. Alcorn cannot doubt the result. Camp life in Floyd's brigade. The correspoGen. Alcorn cannot doubt the result. Camp life in Floyd's brigade. The correspondent of the Lynchburg Republican writes, recently, the following a sketch: The roads in these mountains are terrible — to wagon almost impassable — occasioned by the drenching rains which we have about every other day. All our movements, therefore, are obliged to be very slow. It took us a day and a half to march from the