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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
, but the activity of our troops has so far prevented it. The citizens are being rapidly enrolled in the State militia. Thirty-five companies have already been organized, 15 of which have been armed, and are now chasing guerillas and assisting our troops to maintain quiet. There is an excited state of feeling, and "death to the guerillas" is the motto. Seven guerillas were hung in one day by a party of citizens, who joined together for a fox chase. Hudson, Mo., Aug. 7.--Colonel McNeill's forces came up with parties of guerrillas a few miles northeast of Kirksville, in Adair county, yesterday morning, and followed them skirmishing into the town, where a general fight ensued, in which the rebels lost 150 killed, forty wagons of supplies, and ten wagon loads of arms. Porter's forces are scattered. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 8.--General Merrill, during active operations against guerrillas in the northeast, will call able bodied loyal men to his assistance, and subsist his