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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 31 (search)
and Columbus, and no immediate attack on Paducah is apprehended. Gen. C. F. Smith is now commanding at Paducah. At Cairo the greatest military activity prevails. A very large force is being rapidly formed in and quartered either here, at Bird's Point, or at the new camp on the Kentucky side, called Camp Holt. This last-named camp was established yesterday, and a heavy battery erected so as to command the Ohio and Mississippi opposite Bird's Point. Fortifications are also being rapidly thand no immediate attack on Paducah is apprehended. Gen. C. F. Smith is now commanding at Paducah. At Cairo the greatest military activity prevails. A very large force is being rapidly formed in and quartered either here, at Bird's Point, or at the new camp on the Kentucky side, called Camp Holt. This last-named camp was established yesterday, and a heavy battery erected so as to command the Ohio and Mississippi opposite Bird's Point. Fortifications are also being rapidly thrown up here.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 137 (search)
r a short trip, lay to on the Kentucky shore, near the head of Island No.1, where we remained through the night in company with other transports from Cairo and Bird's Point, aboard of which were troops, comprising the Seventh Iowa, commanded by Col. Lauman, Twenty-seventh Illinois, Col. Buford, Thirtieth Illinois, Col. Fouke, Thirished by each day's report. The official report in regard to missing is no doubt incorrect, as General Grant informs me that squads are returning every day to Bird's Point. Yesterday twenty more returned, and they reported that eighteen others, who had taken a different road, would shortly arrive in camp. It has been assertedthe party burying the dead and a company of cavalry, searching the woods for the dead and wounded. Private letter from a member of Taylor's battery. Bird's Point, Mo., Nov. 8. We returned last night from the hardest fought battle our troops have had since Wilson's Creek. It is the old story. We were over-powered by su