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The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
one, that shots are fired. With the exception of one or two discharges from cannon, the unusual quiet along our front has not been broken for three days. During this time, our industrious foe are busily engaged in making new works and strengthening their old ones. The Elections. There is nothing definite yet from Pennsylvania, the only new dispatch published being one giving the returns of Elk county, which show a Democratic gain of fifty-one. The following is a telegram from Governor Morton relative to the Indiana election: We have eight members of Congress, being a gain of four. The lower House of the Legislature is decidedly Union; the Senate a tie, or probably Democratic by one or two members. My majority is not less than twenty thousand, and the prospect is that it will be a few thousands more. No official returns of the home vote have yet reached the Secretary's office. It is impossible to give an aggregate of the soldiers' vote. The Pennsylvania "Uni
The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Forrest Victories. (search)
the public square, and opening some of the dry goods stores — helping themselves to what they wanted. During the night, the Yankees repaired to the large fort and the block-houses around the town, taking refuge therein. About 6 A. M., Saturday, Morton's battery opened the ball by sending several shots through one of the block-houses, killing some twelve or fifteen Yankees. Firing was continued in the town about an hour, when a train, with two regiments of reinforcements from Decatur, hove in pbell saw that it was "no go," and yielded to General Forrest's "persuasive arguments." The reinforcements which reached the stockade did not seem inclined to comply with the "War Eagle's" request, and persisted in refusing to surrender.-- One of Morton's guns was turned upon the "edifice," and a shot was sent through it, killing three. The white flag was soon displayed, and the taking of Athens was over at 11 o'clock, with but a very small loss to us. The number of prisoners taken was nea