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The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
and the Missouri State Guard were left at Van-Buren. Col. Wood, who is in command of the U. States forces in Houston, is kept busy watching the enemy, and keeps them lack in Arkansas. A week ago two of the rebel leaders, Coleman and McFarland, quarrelled and separated, not agreeing on a policy, but it is now ascertained that General McBride has succeeded them in the command of all their forces. He has been reinforced by 6,000 men from Pocahontas, and intends a raid from Houston to Rolla, but he will find the Union troops ready to receive him. We have almost daily communication with and information from the rebel camp. Last week they had a grand muster, the people of the whole country turning out, but only three men volunteering. Rebel Captain and a mail taken. Baltimore, April 14. --The United States steamer Hercules, Thomas S. Dungan, Lieutenant Commanding, reached this port this morning, having with her the schooner Bride, previously reported as being captur
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
This warfare has visibly declined since our cavalry received orders to shoot guerrillas on sight. A few have given themselves up to the authorities at Springfield, and profess that the leaders have changed their tactics entirely. Many now intend, it is said, to confine their operations entirely to destroying Government trains and other property. This they call legitimate warfare, but it is not likely they will stick to this programme long, especially if the cavalry stops shooting them. Rolla people now consider travelling from that place to Springfield perfectly safe since the 5th Kansas cavalry have killed all the guerrillas in the immediate neighborhood of the road and scared off their bands for many miles on each side. The rebels are becoming as thoroughly afraid of the 5th Kansas, as the rebels near independence were six months ago of Jennison. Apropos of Jennison. The pro-slavery Union men unite with the rebels in this State in expressing their joy because Jennison w
The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
and also the L' Auguille, at both the crossings of the Memphis and Jacksonport road; also where the main road to Helena crosses it.--We are in good health, fine spirits, and anxious to be pushed forward. Fine crops of corn are growing in the slopes of Crowley's ridge; and the swamps have numbers of cattle. Price, however, has carried off all the negroes and cattle he could gather on this side of the White river. This point (Wittsburg) is the fecal point of Eastern Arkansas, and should have been made the base of operations against Little Rock, instead of Springfield and Rolla. The Memphis and Jacksonport Road, the old Military Road from Memphis to Little Rock, the Chalk Bluff and Helena Road, all diverge nearly here, and the position on the ridge can be made almost impregnable, with a primary base, if you please, at Memphis, and the secondary one at Wittsburg, the objective point being White river, which once reached and bridged, becomes your third and last base of supplies.
The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Two days later from the North. (search)
ts of the enemy. The towns of Granton, Arcadia, Mineral Paint and Potosi suffered great injury. The condition of affairs below De Soto are unknown. Later. The mail agent of the Southwest Branch railroad arrived to-night. He reports that General Ewing reached Harrison's station about 10 o'clock last night, closely pursued by the enemy. Fighting has been going on, but the result is unknown. The road is cut this side of Harrison, and the towns of Cuba and Bourbon are burning, Harrison being between these two towns. The supposition is that the road is cut both sides of that point, severing communication with both St. Louis and Rolla. Escaped prisoners who arrived at De Soto to-day report that Pilot Knob is still held by the rebels, but their numbers and probable movements are not known. It is understood that a portion of General Smith's force starts for Franklin, the intersection of the Pacific and Southwest branch roads, forty miles west of here, to-night.
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Fortress Monroe on the 4th and proceeded up James river. A dispatch to the Tribune from Louisville, dated October 4th, says that "a band of thirty-five guerrillas captured two upward- bound freight trains on the Nashville railroad at 10 o'clock last night, between Richland station and Fountainhead. They burned nineteen cars, but they contained no stores. To-day the trains will be slightly disarranged by the disaster." Accounts from Missouri state that General Price is moving on Rolla in three columns, the right under Shelby and Marmaduke, the centre under himself, and the left under Cooper — the latter being composed mainly of half-breed Indians. About five hundred rebels entered Union, the county seat of Franklin county, on Saturday, and captured about one hundred of the county militia.--Washington had a garrison of six hundred men, under Colonel Gale, who evacuated the place on the approach of the rebels, and took his men and stores across the Missouri river. The dep
The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
is probably aware of his movements, and will keep him from doing much harm. From Missouri. Northern accounts state that, on the 4th, Price was threatening Rolla. Large detachments of Confederate troops are committing depredations in the portion of the State north of the Missouri river. The devotion of the people of Nob, about a week previous. From that time he had almost continual fighting with the rebels until Saturday last, when he inflicted on them a decisive defeat. On Sunday his command reached Rolla, with all their artillery. His total loss from the beginning of the siege of Rolla was only three hundred men, mostly taken prisoners: ob, about a week previous. From that time he had almost continual fighting with the rebels until Saturday last, when he inflicted on them a decisive defeat. On Sunday his command reached Rolla, with all their artillery. His total loss from the beginning of the siege of Rolla was only three hundred men, mostly taken prisoners:
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
d Petersburg have been received; but their details are not at present proper for publication. Sheridan all right. A dispatch from General Stevenson reports that an officer of General Sheridan's staff has just arrived. General Sheridan was still at Harrisonburg. His supply trains were going on all right, occasionally interrupted by guerrilla parties, the only rebel force on the road. * * * From Missouri. General Rosecrans reports that General Ewing made good his retreat to Rolla, losing only a few stragglers and the killed and wounded on the way, which were very few. From the number of the wounded of the rebels, the enemy's loss will not fall much short of a thousand placed hors du combat. [Signed]Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Under its general news head, the Gazette has the following: According to the latest advices from Missouri, General Price reached the Osage river on Thursday; but was prevented from crossing it by the Federal force tha
The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
afternoon, on the way to Lexington. The defeat of General Ewing in Missouri--his retreat to Rolla. The defeat of General Ewing at Arcadia Valley, Missouri, by General Sterling Price, on the 2ck, but, lo ! at that moment a large body of Union cavalry was seen coming from the direction of Rolla, and in fifteen minutes it had broken the posts and pickets of the enemy in that direction, and the advance of an army. To push out a strong picket up and down the road, and move toward Rolla the same night, ws the next thing; and this was done, and the position evacuated, before the rebes's station, on the South Pacific road, was reached, where the entire command took the cars for Rolla, and reached it in safety, seven hundred strong, after fighting every mile of the way and undergnot exceed one hundred and fifty. These estimates are made exclusive of the reinforcements from Rolla, of course. The Confederates in front of Jefferson city. The following dispatch contains
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
instead of having the Red and Wachita rivers as a line of defence, the enemy have now their old work to do over again — to drive us from Northern Missouri. Price has taken Jeff. Thompson's old racing ground, leading from Clarendon, in Arkansas, to Batesville and Pilot Knob, in Missouri. He attacked Pilot Knob and Shepherd mountain in a way quite unexpected by them, cutting all communication with St. Louis, and attacked the garrison in its rear. He pursued the affrighted Ewing towards Rolla, and compelled him to give the order to his men to scatter and save themselves. Then turning his course towards the Osage river, he burned the bridge over the Gasconade and marched toward the Osage river, which he struck at Castle Rock. Here a battle was fought; and latest Northern accounts say that Price has forced the passage of the Osage in spite of the opposition of the Federal troops, and now demands the surrender of Jefferson City, the capital of the State, and it was feared the garr
The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he rebel Major Bowie and the rebel Lieutenant Key have been killed, and Colonel Shanks mortally wounded. Colonel Fletcher, with fifteen men, arrived here from Rolla to-night, and reports one thousand five hundred men repairing the southwestern branch of the railroad; that the telegraph will be in working order to-morrow; that the road will be open from Rolla to Mozelle the day after, and that all is now snug at Rolla. The bridge and water tank at Scott's, eight miles west of Jefferson City, have been burned by the rebels; also, the railroad depot at Lookout, a few miles beyond. St. Louis, Missouri, October 11. --Intelligence has been received Rolla. The bridge and water tank at Scott's, eight miles west of Jefferson City, have been burned by the rebels; also, the railroad depot at Lookout, a few miles beyond. St. Louis, Missouri, October 11. --Intelligence has been received at head-quarters that Price's army went from California to Booneville, Cooper county, yesterday, and Shelby sent two thousand cavalry across the Missouri river at that point. General Fisk has gone to Lexington to take command there. General Sanborn is still pursuing the enemy. Reports were extensively circulated to-day that
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