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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Who will help the ladies? (search)
From Kentucky. advance of the Federals on Bacon Creek — Prevalence of Contagious Diseases — the Sovereignty Conventions, &c. Nashville, Nov. 18. --The Bowling Green correspondent of the Union and American, of this city, and a gentleman direct from Elizabethton, reports that the Federals, 4,000 strong, had advanced on Bacon creek. The small pox, a violent type of typhoid fever, and the black measles, were prevailing with frightful mortality among the troops on MuldroBacon creek. The small pox, a violent type of typhoid fever, and the black measles, were prevailing with frightful mortality among the troops on Muldrough's Hill. Large numbers are dying daily. A portion of Gen. Hardee's forces, under Col. Anderson, who were sent to break up the Federal camp at Tompkinsville, returned to Bowling Green on yesterday, the 17th. The Federals left two days before the Confederates arrived at Tompkinsville. A special dispatch to the Union and American, dated at Russellville, Ky., on this day, states that the Sovereignty Convention met on that morning, and fifty-one counties were represented. H. C. Burne