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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 122 (search)
e held pledged to secrecy in reference thereto. J. C. Wickliffe, of Nelson County, moved that the Conference adjourn to meet again to-morrow morning, at ten o'clock. Ayes twenty-three, nays twenty-two, and the Conference accordingly adjourned. Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1861. The Conference met pursuant to adjournment. The journal of yesterday was read and approved. The following gentlemen appeared and took seats in the Conference, viz.: From Carroll County, H. L. Giltner; from Anderson County, J. H. D. McKee; from Muhlenburg County, W. U. Wand; from Woodford County, Sandford Lyne; from Monroe County, Z. McDaniel; from Christian County, Henry Young; from Campbell County, George B. Hodge; from Jefferson County, J. B. Bell. Colonel G. W. Johnson, of Scott County, presented a series of resolutions for the consideration of the Conference. R. McKee, of the city of Louisville, offered a substitute for the resolutions presented by Mr. Johnson. H. W. Bruce, of the city of Lo
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 38 (search)
sidewalks grown up with weeds. Crossed the State line into Fentress County, Tennessee, about eleven o'clock A. M. October first, passed through Jamestown, which is another place of desolation. The courthouse has fallen down. A citizen of Fentress County told us that they had had no enforcement of the civil law in that county for about two years; that every man not taken by conscription was a law unto himself. On the morning of the third we got to Montgomery, the county-seat of Anderson County. Here are visible the tracks of this monster — rebellion. The town is evacuated and every thing going to ruin. But one family in town. October fourth, we crossed Clinch River. The country lying between Cumberland and Clinch Rivers is laid in great desolation. We had thought we had seen the desolating effects of the war before, but through this section is the worst we have found in our travels. The people have deserted the country and towns. Some, we presume, went to the South,
The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrest. (search)
Horrible Outrages by the Yankees in Anderson county, Ky. --The Louisville (Bowling Green) Courier, of the 1st inst., says: In Anderson county, we are informed the Federals are committing such excesses as have never been witnessed in this State since the savages were driven from its borders, Arson, robbery, plunder, violence, every species of lawlessness is perpetrated by them. The other day the house of Capt. Utterback was burned by them. A young gentleman named Thompson was tied to a tree, and whipped terribly, when his persecutors left him, bleeding, suffering, and helpless, to perish, as he would have done but for the timely assistance of a gentleman who accidentally found him. Stock is driven off, granaries emptied, hay and wheat stocks burned, and a fine bridge across one of the leading turnpike roads there was burned the other day in pure wantonning. This is a fair of Lincolnism in Kentucky.
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], A "Battle-Flag" for the Powhatan Troop. (search)
Phillips, with his company of cavalry, last night brought in from Hancock county several prisoners, among them one deserter, who had joined Dr. Byrd's company. Capt. Cocke also brought in several prisoners from Cocke county. John Black, of Anderson county, who has been in correspondence with the enemy, was also brought in yesterday by Capt. Clarke's company of Minute Men. Incendiarism in Haskins County.--A friend at Whitesburg writes us, Dec. 12th, that "last night Mr. Jances Headerick'snd good citizens, and this destruction of their bars and cribs leaves them without one blade of roughness to feed their stock. Another Raid into Scott County.--There was on yesterday a rumor current on the street, that Capt. Bradley, of Anderson county, and 34 of his men, had been taken prisoners by a large body of Lincolnites, in Scott county, Tennessee. We have been unable to learn any of the particulars of this affair, and merely give the rumor as an item of news, without vouching for