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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Public meeting in Memphis for the defence of the City. (search)
lved, That a committee be appointed to issue a brief address to the citizens of the surrounding country in Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama setting forth the imminent dangers to which we are exposed from an invading army, and urging all able-bodied men to organize themselves into an army of defence, and hold themselves in readiness to march a any moment to any point designated should the enemy descend the Valley of the Mississippi. Resolved, That Messrs. Miller, Apperson, McDavit and Nelson, be a committee to confer with the commanding generals at Columbus, and to tender to them such pecuniary aid as may be needed to expedite building of the submarine batteries they now have under construction. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to confer at once with our generals at Columbus, Ky., and urge upon them the necessity of immediately closing the Mississippi river at some point with formidable rafts or otherwise, under the supervision of a competent eng