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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 173 (search)
Doc. 154.-the fight at Dug Springs, Mo. August 2, 1861. A correspondent at Curran, Stone County, Missouri, gives the following account of this affair:--The report which reached us at Springfield, gave rise to the belief that Gen. McCulloch designed an attack upon that point, by two columns moving from Cassville and Sarcoxie. The Federal scouts reported their force at about fifteen thousand in each division, and on Wednesday they were reported within twenty miles of the town and advancing le, after taking what provisions and men they could press into their service by their very summary process. The shell struck the chimney of a house in which the officers were dining. They did not wait for the dessert to be served. Arrived at Curran, twenty-six miles from Springfield, we encamped, to take advantage of tho good water. Our position was much exposed, but from the exhibitions of valor for the past few days we stood in little fear of an attack. Five prisoners were brought in by
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter III (search)
. He was unwilling to abandon southwestern Missouri to the enemy without a struggle, even though almost hopeless of success, and determined to bring on a decisive battle, if possible, before his short-term volunteers were discharged. Learning that the enemy was slowly advancing from the southwest by two or three different roads, Lyon moved out, August 1, on the Cassville road, had a skirmish with the enemy's advance-guard at Dug Springs the next day, and the day following (the 3d) again at Curran Post-office. The enemy showed no great force, and offered but slight resistance to our advance. It was evident that a general engagement could not be brought on within the limits of time and distance to which we were confined by the state of our supplies. It was therefore determined to return to Springfield. General Lyon was greatly depressed by the situation in which he was placed, the failure of expected reinforcements and supplies from St. Louis, and an evidently strong conviction
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 6: the genius of Universal emancipation.—1829-30. (search)
of the paper, and the motto below the title was the immortal assertion from the Declaration of Independence (the glittering generality which the Abolitionists were to make—as Emerson, in his retort to Rufus Choate's sneer, declared it— a blazing ubiquity), We hold these truths to be selfevident: that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. At the head of the first column stood Curran's eloquent idealization of the spirit of liberty, from which the paper derived its name, with editorial applications interpolated. I speak in the spirit of the British [American?] law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, the British [American?] soil—which proclaims, even to the stranger and the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British [American?] earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the Genius of Universal Emancipation. No<
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
staff is here, and the remainder will soon arrive or be appointed at once. What his plans will be against the enemy I am not aware, but it is quite probable that he will in a great measure carry out the designs of Gen. Fremont. Wilson's Creek, the battle ground, is held by a portion of the rebel army, who are engaged in throwing up earthworks, and the remainder of the force, with the exception of the body at Cassville, is within ten or fifteen miles of the creek, some of them being at Curran, and others at Crane Creek and Dug Springs. Four days ago Gen. McCulloch issued ten days rations to his men, and informed them that they would fight before those rations were exhausted. McCulloch is very anginous for battle, and his troops share his enthusiasm. The whole force of the rebels is said to be about 60,000, but of these some 10,000 or 15,000 are not in fighting condition. My opinion is that we shall meet not far from 45,000 men in battle, many of them finely armed,