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The Daily Dispatch: may 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], The traitor Dent. (search)
his, Tenn., from a gentleman in Cairo, dated May 24th. Its statements may be relied upon as substantially correct. The writer says: "Cairo is now quiet, notwithstanding the presence of 4,000 troops. No shipments are permitted to be made from this point to Kentucky, Missouri or southward — every kind of provision, even vegetables, being condemned as contraband and 'aid and comfort to the rebels.' During the past week the following articles have been taken from steamers by order of Col. Prentiss, and confiscated; 1,410 bags corn, 200 bags meal, 1,355 bags and barrels potatoes, 550 sacks bran, 30 casks ale, 950 barrels flour, and 1,250 barrels lime. "The report prevails that Col. Rodgers, of the United States Navy, who has been so journing in our midst for a few days, visited Mound City yesterday, for the purpose of purchasing the steamer City of Memphis, for military use; and that other boats will be brought hither, when a fleet will start down the Mississippi river, full o
The Daily Dispatch: June 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], A peace Ambassador. (search)
more. He says they have abandoned the original plan of bringing 50,000 men down in steamboats, as that would probably result in a discomfiture. They have greatly enlarged the plan of their operations, which, up to Wednesday, is as follows: Colonel Prentiss said last Wednesday that he wanted at least seventy-five thousand troops to invade the South, and that they did not intend to move at all till they obtained them. He said he expected to get them ready in ten days, and that if they did, theyriver of 25,000 troops. The forces by land will go in advance of the river column, and are expected to turn all the batteries and conquer all the forces that they may come across in their triumphant career. Indeed the force is so large that Col. Prentiss expresses it as his belief that much bloodshed will be avoided, inasmuch as he expects that no resistance will be made in some places and but little anywhere, the large force being the best defence against attack. He says he expects to be ab
The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
Hawkins Zouaves at Newport News, where the Massachusetts Eighth, Vermont Regiment, Scott's Life Guard, and German Rifles, were encamped. Advices from Louisville state that Col. Anderson has declined the Department of Kentucky. He has been attached to Gen. McClelland's Department. Backner, of the State Guard, and Roussean, of the Home Guards have been to Cincinnati holding a conference with Gen McClelland. The particulars have not transpired. Dispatches from Cairo state that Gen. Prentiss sent two companies to Mound City. Col. Shutner, at Bird's Point, captured eighteen Secessionists, and brought them to Cairo for examination. Postal Affairs at Louisville. Louisville,June 11.--All letters from Tennessee, except those from Memphis, are delivered; but as orders are momentarily expected from Washington, correspondents are cautioned against entrusting valuables to the mails. Adams' Express Company can only carry when enclosed in stamped envelopes; postage
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource], Didn't know what a Barbette gun was. (search)
Didn't know what a Barbette gun was. --"Union-Slide Banks, one of the Major Generals, the Ohio Watchman says, did not know when appointed to that office what a barbette gun was. He inquired of Gen. Prentiss, of Columbus, in that State, who happened to be at Washington at the time-- "General, what is a barbette gun? I don't know." The General ought to have informed him that it was an invention to slide the Union asunder.
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource], From Utah. (search)
es, Brigadier General of this Brigade, by a vote of 180 to 1 over Capt. Pope, and yet Capt. Pope has been appointed Brigadier General, and now actually ranks General Prentiss, and we may be at any moment transferred from the command of Gen. Prentiss to that of Gen. Pope. 4th. Governor Yates can go East twice, "making fine speGen. Prentiss to that of Gen. Pope. 4th. Governor Yates can go East twice, "making fine speeches and eating fine dinners. " He seems to have forgotten that there are 8,000 men here at Cairo, and has utterly neglected to give them one cent, although the Legislature of the State has voted $3,000,000 for us. 5th. Our rations have been very bad in quality and short in quantity. Mr. Editor, I am, it is true, only aor, I am, it is true, only a common private soldier, and you may throw this communication aside in disgust. Be it so. But the common soldier has the fighting to do, and I now tell you that even with him there is a point where forbearance is no virtue. We demand justice for Gen. Prentiss. If you don't give us that, beware.
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
31) as follows: There has been one continued excitement here and at Cairo since the rumor reached here that General Pillow was moving on Bird's Point. General Prentiss has been running around like a dog "in high cats" for a week past. The other night the picket guard at Bird's Point came running into camp at the same speed, which existed for some time.--They were contemplating a retreat when news came that there was nothing of Gen. Pillow's movements towards Bird's Point. General Prentiss, who has been instrumental in stealing negroes for several months, is fearful that he cannot maintain his position at Cairo, and has it in contemplation to is position at Cairo, and has it in contemplation to evacuate Bird's Point and put his entire force in Cairo. General John Charles Fremont will visit Cairo in a short time; so he has informed General Prentiss. He is now in St. Louis. A few balls thrown into Cairo would cause a stampede equal to the "Virginia races."
The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of Major Weightman. (search)
nce of the greatly exaggerated accounts of the battle near Springfield, which is represented as a great victory for the Confederates. Ironton, Mo., August 17. --A messenger brings information that Colonel Hecker, who left here on Thursday with his regiment, surprised a body of Confederates, 400 strong, near Frederickstown, early yesterday morning.--He captured all their camp equipage, and his men ate the breakfast which had just been prepared. Twelve prisoners were also taken. Gen. Prentiss had arrived and taken command of all the forces in this section. Rolla, Mo., August 18. --Captain Emmett McDonald was in town to-day. He reports that Capt. Charles C. Rodgers, aid-de-camp to Governor Jackson, and Capt A. Colman, both of St. Louis, were killed in the battle of the 10th. General Siegel received his commission as Brigadier General on Saturday, and assumed command of the Federal forces yesterday. McDonald was escorted beyond the lines yesterday, and sent on h
The Daily Dispatch: August 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], $5 reward (search)
from her invaders. The South began this war — transfer he fighting to her own soil, and let her feel its effects. If I have not very much mistaken he man, General Prentiss would, if he had orders, move there with a single regiment.--Give him the change, and he will show the country what an Illinois General is made of I am assured by respectable citizens of Kentucky that, if General Prentiss was ordered there, the Union element, now overawed, would rush to his standard in numbers that would astonish the entire country. Columbus, considered as a military post, is second only to Cairo, on the Western waters. Located on the northern terminus of the Moson, Grand Junction, &c., it will to the party who can hold and occupy it, be a position of vast importance; and I have been informed on "high authority," that Gen. Prentiss thinks it should long ago have been in our possession. Although in a Secession district, still there are many strong Union man there, and if once assured of t
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], War matters. (search)
to be hoped many of the missing Sixty-ninth are amongst them. Soldiers like Beauregard will treat them as brave men ought to be treated. To the Northerns the battle at Bull Run has not only been a defeat, but a disaster and a disgrace.--To Irishmen the reflection that our exiled fellow-countrymen are on both sides, is melanancholy. The son of John Mitchell may have crossed words with Thomas Francis Meagher. Yankee accounts of Affairs in Missouri. Ironton, Mo., Aug. 20. --General Prentiss has been assigned to the command of the division embracing Cape Girardeau and Bird's Point. General Grant has been ordered to Jefferson City. The Confederates on the St. Francis river are said to be 20,000 strong. Glasgow, Mo., Aug. 21.--About fifteen hundred Secessionists have assembled in Salina county, and are organizing either to join General Price's army in the South or for local operations in the surrounding counties. In view of the latter purpose, the Union citizens at tha
The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Big talk. (search)
e to be slain for their food. The primeval forests of the boundless West are to be felled for their fuel. The cowards of Bull Run are to be metamorphosed into grim warriors, to whom the Tenth Legion of Caesar and the Old Guard of Napoleon were mere Sunday soldiers. This mighty host is not to be in a hurry. It is to take its own time.--Bennett has allowed it until October. For a month or two, we are told, it will be as much as can be done by Scott, McClellan, Wool, Rosencranz, Anderson, Prentiss, Fremont, and the other Generals, so make the needful preparations, &c. We should suppose it would. At the end of that time all are to advance. A powerful naval armament is to move along our coast, carrying on board forty thousand troops. The others are to move through Virginia and down the Mississippi into the heart of the Cotton States. The mouth of the ancient plunderer waters at the bare prospect of the spoils. All the cotton belonging to the Government of the Confederacy is to be
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