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The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], North Carolina. (search)
mode of procedure of the Confederate horse-marine cavalry in capturing the Yankee gunboats out West is very interesting. Some letters to the Mobile Register give full accounts of the recent exploits of the troops of Forrest's command on the Tennessee river. The first is a narrative of what was done by Buford's division, and the description is worth reading: At daylight, everything was in readiness; every one breathlessly watched the river for approaching steamers and their convoys. Abouening the engagement became general. Colonel Rucker succeeded in gaining the river bank immediately opposite the town, under a heavy fire from the enemy's boats and land batteries, and for two hours the hills and hollows for miles along the Tennessee river resounded with the roar of cannon and musketry. Morton's guns set the transports (seven in all) on fire, and pretty soon the entire wharf was in flames. The enemy had four large siege pieces on a hill just back of the town, which continued