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cal neutrality of the States of California and Oregon, and of the Territories of Washington and Nevada, suggesting the advantages which would result to the people thereof upon an immediate assertion on their part of their independence of the United States; and proposing, upon their so doing, the formation of a league, offensive and defensive, between said States and Territories and the confederate States of America. A fight took place near Olive Hill, Ky., between the home guards of Carter County and a thousand rebels under the guerrilla Morgan. Morgan commenced the attack, but, after several hours' skirmishing, he was repulsed, losing several of his men. He retreated towards the Licking River, destroying thirty-five houses on his route. This day a Union force under command of General Foster, accompanied by gunboats, left Washington, N. C., and advanced upon Hamilton, taking possession of that place and driving the rebels toward Tarboro. General Scott's letter, reviewi
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 146. fight on the Wautauga River, November 10, 1861. (search)
r. J. R. Howard as a volunteer, and started from Bristol by the railroad at six o'clock. They sent lanterns ahead of the train and found the track torn up between Wautauga and the Union Station Bridge; but the damage was soon repaired, and they passed over safely. Arriving at Carter's Station, they stopped and threw out pickets, and about midnight the little scouting party, under Captain Miller, started to explore the country. They had proceeded some three and a half miles through Carter County, Tennessee, when they were met by a pretty heavy fire from rifles and shot-guns, which was promptly returned, and the skirmish was kept up with spirit for half a hour. The Lincolnites were some three hundred strong, and constituted the advance of a body of eight hundred stationed at Elizabethtown, the mountain stronghold of the traitors. We may state here that these men, as has been since ascertained from prisoners, expected a reinforcement of five hundred men from Wautauga County, North Car
of North Carolina were disposed, so far as the records show, as follows: Thirty-two regiments and one battalion of infantry, two regiments of cavalry and three batteries were with General Lee; under Gen. Kirby Smith, the Fifty-eighth, Colonel Palmer, the Sixty-fourth, Colonel Allen, and Fifth cavalry battalion, Capt. S. W. English, were stationed at Big Greek gap, Tenn.; the Sixty-second regiment, Colonel Love, was guarding bridges near Knoxville; the Seventh cavalry battalion was in Carter county, Tenn.; Walker's cavalry battalion was in Monroe county, Tenn.; the Twenty-ninth, Colonel Vance, and the Thirty-ninth, Colonel Coleman, were in Bragg's army. In the State, General Whiting was in charge of the defenses of Wilmington, with 9,913 officers and men. Gen. S. D. French, in charge of the department of North Carolina, had his forces stationed as follows: General Pettigrew's brigade at Magnolia; Gen. N. G. Evans' South Carolina brigade at Kinston; General Daniel's brigade, General Da
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Diary of Major R. C. M. Page, Chief of Confederate States artillery, Department of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee, from October, 1864, to May, 1865. (search)
ng Lieutenants Pearcy and Dobson, forty-four non-commissioned officers, and two hundred and seventy-nine privates — a total effective force of three hundred and forty-four. Burroughs ordered into camp on Kent's farm with Lynch. The nine condemned guns sent by rail to Richmond. November 5th, 1864.—Wytheville, Virginia. In view of an early advance into East Tennessee, received orders to send a battery to Vaughan near Carter's station, Virginia, East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad, Carter county, Tennessee. Ordered Lynch with his own 12-pound howitzer section, and Burroughs' section of 12-pound howitzers, to report to Vaughan. Transported by rail. November 8th, 1864.—Wytheville, Virginia. Started by rail today for Carter's station, East Tennessee, with Captain Burroughs and his remaining section. Lieutenants Pearcy and Dobson accompanied me. Arrived same night at Bristol, Sullivan county, Tennessee, just on the border line; remained in the cars until morning. November 9th, 1<
Sudden death. --Rev. Jona. Leslie, an acting justice of the peace in Carter county, Tenn., fell dead from his chair, Monday last. His disease was of the heart. He was an aged man, and had been for more than a quarter of a century a minister of the gospel in the Methodist Church.
From Tennessee. Bristol, Tenn, May 7. --Johnson and Nelson, on approaching Blountville, were met by a deputation of citizens, who presented them the note of the Committee of Forty-Two.--They responded that if a majority of the meeting did not wish to hear them, they would not inflict a speech upon them. Whereupon, the vote was again taken upon the question of permitting them to speak. The meeting was composed of fifteen hundred persons. Five persons voted to hear them, three of them came up on the train with Johnson and Nelson, and were citizens of Carter county. Finding such an overwhelming majority against them, they concluded not to speak. Sullivan county is now a unit for the South.
The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrival of Judge W. P. Hill at Galveston. (search)
Powder mill in Tennessee. --Mr. A. B. Dodgion, of Carter county, Tennessee, has erected a mill, and will be ready to manufacture powder in a few days. Plenty of saltpetre is found in the caves in Carter. A large supply of lead can also be procured in that county.
Howard as a volunteer, and started from Bristol by the railroad on Sunday evening at 6 o'clock. They sent lanterns ahead of the train and found the track was up between Wautauga and the Union Station bridge, but the damage was soon required and they passed over safely. Arriving at Carter's Station, they stopped and threw out pickets; and about midnight the little scouting party under Capt. Miller started to explore the country. They had proceeded some three and a half miles through Carter county, Tenn., when they were met by a pretty heavy fire from rifles and shot-guns, which was promptly returned, and the skirmish was kept up with spirit for half an hour. The Lincolnites were some 300 strong, and constituted the advance of a body of 800, stationed in Elizabethtown, the mountain stronghold of the traitors. We may state here that these men, (as has been since ascertained from prisoners,) expected a reinforcement of 500 from Wautauga county, North Carolina, a disaffected region adj
[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Lynchburg Nov. 12. Since writing this morning I have gathered the following particulars in relation to the skirmish which took place in Carter county, Tennessee, on Sunday night last between the bridge burners and a reconnoitering party sent out by Col. Clarkson. The party of Confederates engaged consisted of 21 men under command of Capt. Miller, of the Vicksburg Sharp-Shooters, whose company is now stationed at Manassas. The Captain obtaineppears that Gen. or Col. Clarkson, with about 150 men, had previously gone in search of the scoundrels. The Captain and his party left Bristol about 9 o'clock Sunday evening, and marched in the direction of Elizabeth-town, the county seat of Carter county; he had not proceeded very far before he fell in with Col. Clarkson, under whose orders he subsequently acted, and was detailed, with twenty-one men, to reconnoiter in the neighborhood of Elizabethtown, with orders that in case he should find
, as I understand that Colonel Stovall set out this morning with his command for Elizabethton, which is only six miles from Carter's Depot Several of their men have — been taken prisoners. One a negro, who was a Captain of a white company of Carter county, and was at the time of his capture in a flashy uniform, which had been sent to him, he said, by his Mass Bill Carter, the notorious traitor, now in Kentucky. I believe that Captain Darkey is considered a "contraband," and has been sent off to be sold. A man by the name of Stover, a son-in-law of Andy Johnson, is Colonel of a regiment in Carter county. Johnson has another son-in-law, who bears the title of "Judge." who is not, like Cæsar's wife, above suspicion. It is said that the Carterites are very indignant that Lincoln failed in his part of the drama, and left them exposed to ridicule and danger; but, from appearances, I judge they will pull trigger for the "old vag." But they are in a bad situation, hemmed in on all s
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