Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Pleasanton or search for Pleasanton in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], The fighting at Philomont — Thieving operations of the Yankees, &c. (search)
The fighting at Philomont — Thieving operations of the Yankees, &c. Philomont, November 18, 1862. Thinking a sketch of the arrest of citizens and the battle of November 1st, at this place would somewhat interest you, I will give you a short history of the past two weeks. On Saturday morning, the 1st of November, General Pleasanton arrived here and immediately arrested every citizen of the place and all neighbors who happened to be here, and, arranging them on Dennis's wood pile, proceeded to offer to them, through a nice little Irish Lieutenant, the oath of allegiance to Old Abe & Co. But, unfortunately for the safety of the place, not a single man took the oath. Therefore, all were confined in the storehouse. At about 12 o'clock Stuart passed over a compliment, in the shape of a shell, which soon formed about 10,000 Yankees and fourteen pieces of cannon in line of battle. They fought with great desperation until about 5 o'clock, when they considered it prudent to fall ba