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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
We make the subjoined extract from a letter in the Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal of Sept. 11, dated Hickman, Ky., Sept. 5th. I suppose that long before this reaches you, the telegraph will have informed you of our movements in this direction, and, also of our little semi-naval engagement of yesterday, between one of our gunboats, Capt. Hamilton's and Capt. Jackson's batteries, and two of Lincoln's practical craft, which of late, have been cruising about from below this point to Cairo and Paducah. As this incident was initiatory of what may prove a bloody conflict in this section of our military operations, and withal was somewhat interesting and exciting, I will endeavor to relate the circumstances of the fight as correctly as possible. A little after 12 o'clock yesterday, General Chestham, who has command of the forces here, received a telegraphic dispatch, from Columbus, stating that two gun-boats were below, and would, in all probability, pay us a visit before they returne
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Southern war News. (search)
s at least three to one. Probable capture of nine Confederates. The Pensacola correspondent of the Mobile News says a Confederate launch with nine men, left the Navy-Yard Sunday night, on Its usual round of police duty, and has not been heard of since. It is thought at the yard she has probably fallen into the hands of the Federals, as they not unfrequently show themselves in the bay. Escaped. The Memphis Appeal learns that Mr. E. J. Marshall, late telegraph operator at Paducah, Ky., who escaped with his instruments the day the Lincolnites took possession of that place, has arrived at Trenton, Tenn., safe and sound. A detachment of Hessian cavalry was sent in pursuit of him, but he managed to elude them. Aid for M'Culloch. The Fort Smith Times, of the 7th, learns that five regiments of troops from Texas, will join Gen. McCulloch in a few days.--Also, one regiment from Mississippi, and one from South, Carolina. Movements of General A. S. Johnston. T