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The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
behaving in the most shameful manner. It is said that captains are in the habit of giving their men leave of absence, and sending them off an as to have accompany to action with. This is the effect of electing officer by the men and unless power to relieve such officers from command, and reduce them to the ranks is vested in the President or Major General as we may surely look for defeat. Company F. of Norfolk, went into action on Wednesday last with two officers and one man. Of the man (Chapman Hill) alone came out safe. Lieut. Duncan Robinson was wounded in the foot, and Lieut. J. Lester, taken prisoner. Capt. John Taylor, of Norfolk, and Capt. Crimes, of Portsmouth, were both killed. Grimes died Friday night. They were officers worthy of their station, and will be mourned by all. Col. Wright, of Georgia, was wounded slightly, and Col. J. Thornton, of Va, killed. The cannon ball that killed him, it is said, come four miles. Nothing from the army to-day. Accomac.
The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], Expedition in Louisiana. (search)
Expedition in Louisiana. --About the 30th ult Governor Moore, of La., accompanied by Generals Taylor and Pratt, lest the Terre Bonne station, on the Opelouses and New Orleans Railroad, with about a thousand men — parts of Bisland's and Vick's regiments — to break up an encampment of the enemy at Boutte Station, on the same road, twenty four miles from New Orleans. The expedition was successful, and the result was sixty Yankees killed, one hundred and forty prisoners, and five pieces of artillery taken. Casualties on our side--one man wounded in the ar