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to the prompt administration of affairs. In order therefore, to suppress disorders and maintain as far as is now practicable the public peace, and to give security and protection to the persons and property of loyal citizens, I do hereby extend and declare established martial law throughout the State of Missouri. The lines of the army of occupation in this State are for the present declared to extend from Leavenworth, by way of the posts of Jefferson City, Rolla and Iron on to Cape Girardeau, on the Mississippi river. All persons who shall be taken with arms in their hards within these lines shall be tried by court martial, and if found guilty will be shot. The property, real and personal, of all persons in the State of Missouri, who shall take up arms against the United States or who shall be directly proven to have taken active part with their enemies in the field, is declared to be confiscated to the public use, and their slaves, if they have any, are hereby declare
Notes of the war. The Northern papers of Thursday last contain some further notes and comments on the war movements, from which we select the following: From Missouri. A Federal dispatch from Cape Girardeau, Mo., Sept. 2d, says: General Prentiss' little army, which left Ironton some days since, arrived safe at Jackson, ten miles west of here, yesterday morning. No enemy was met. A scout who arrived from Hardee's Confederate camp reports that they immediately commenced retreating on hearing of Prentiss' advance, rapidly moving towards Arkansas with his force of 6,000 men. The enemy are reported to be strongly fortified at Sikestown. The following telegrams in regard to the movements of the Confederate army in Missouri, we give for what they are worth: Rolla, Mo., Sept. 2.--A gentleman from Springfield reports that Ben. McCulloch, with 5,000 Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas troops, was marching towards Arkansas, and was last heard from at Chelatable Springs,
The South acknowledged a belligerent power. --Though the Lincoln Government still refuses to officially accord to the Confederate States their acknowledgment as a belligerent power, various military officers in the Federal service are continually doing so without being reprimanded in the slightest from headquarters at Washington. The Memphis Appeal thus sums up the instances: Hutler, when at Fortress Monroe, exchanged prisoners with Gen. Magruder. Col. Wallace, the abolition commander at Cape Girardeau, has within the past few days exchanged prisoners under a recognized flag of truce with Gen. Pillow, and Commodore Stringham accepted the capitulation of Fort Hatteras under the express stipulation to treat Capt. Barron and his garrison as prisoners of war, and as such award them all the usual courtesies appertaining to belligerents. Such a paltry dodge as this is unworthy even of the gorilla-concern over which Abe Lincoln presides.
Lincoln's Generals Quarreling. --The Cairo correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial writes, under date of the 3d: A difficulty has sprung up between General Grant and General Prentiss, which is much to be regretted. The circumstances, I believe, are these; General Prentiss was ordered from here to take command of the expedition. At that time he had not received from Washington his appointment for the war, but held over on his three months appointment, General Grant, before Colonel, received his appointment first, and was ordered to take command. He consequently outranked General Prentiss, and ordered him to the command at Caps Girardeau, General Prentiss refused to obey, and was placed under arrest by order of General Grant, and sent to Cape Girardeau, where he now is. It is said that General Prentiss has sent in his resignation.
Exchange of prisoners. --A correspondent writing to the Memphis Appeal, confirms the statement in regard to the exchange of prisoners between General Pillow and the Federal commander at Cape Girardeau.
The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrival of the French corvette Lavoisier. (search)
From Kentucky — a fight at Elliott's Mills. The Memphis Appeal, of the 26th, contains a lengthy, account of a fight at Elliott's Mills, from its Columbus (Ky.) correspondent, under date of Sept. 23d. from which we make the following extracts: "Information having reached headquarters on the night of the 21st that the Federalists were withdrawing their forces from Cairo, Cape Girardeau, and other points on the river above, leaving feeble garrisons at each of these points, and removing their troops to St. Louis and Western Virginia, a movement was apparently determined upon to look after the condition of things at the mills, some twelve miles above here, where six or seven thousand Federal troops are reported to be stationed — some three thousand at the mills and three or four thousand at the head of Island One, three miles above. Orders were issued accordingly for Lieut. Col. Logwood's battalion of Tennessee Cavalry, and Lieut. Col. Miller's battalion of Mississippi Cavalry,
army — strength of his forces, &c. [From the Columbus (Ky.) Confederate News, Oct. 27.] We are pleased to have it in our power to lay before our readers the true state of the case in regard to the recent engagement between the Federals and the Missourians under Jeff. Thompson. We have our information from an eye-witness and a gentleman of undoubted veracity. It seems that by some previous arrangement there was a simultaneous movement of two columns of the enemy--one from Cape Girardeau. the other from Farmington, or some place on the Iron Mountain Railroad. These columns were both moving in the direction of Fredericktown. Gen. Thompson advanced his army from Greenville on the road that led to the same place. By good fortune Thompson captured a messenger, bearing a dispatch from the commander of the Cape Girardeau force to the commander of the other column, by which he ascertained that it was proposed to unite these forces around Fredericktown, where it was supp
ord and Bloom field. The cavalry were moved to a new field of labor, under General Thompson's personal command. Of course, any statement made as to their destination would be injudicious. Gen. T. considers his little campaign one of complete success, although in consequence of unavoidable accidents, all was not accomplished that was originally contemplated.--The Big River Bridge was burned — thus cutting off communication by rail between two important positions held by the enemy — Cape Girardeau and Pilot Knob. The cavalry performed a march of two hundred and seventy-five miles within the ten days, and the infantry over on hundred and eighty--distances unprecedented in the history of the movements of armies. This energy shows what can be accomplished by men fighting for privileges they are determined to secure. The enemy had become alarmed at the rapid movements of Gen. T.'s command, and brought out 7,000 men to overwhelm him.--Referring to the fight, he says: "We met the
t the body guard, were killed. Maj. Seagoni was advised of the force of the rebels, but he was determined to have a fight. Col. Pearce, said to be from Arkansas, commanded one of the rebel regiments. It is thought that the cause of that increased rebel force at Springfield was the large amount of plunder gathered there for some weeks past, which, it is stated, they intend to take South with them, but which will of course fall into our hands. The loss of either is not stated. The late battle at Fredericktown. St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 27. --The fifty prisoners taken in the battle at Fredericktown have been put to work on the trenches at Cape Girardeau The accounts of Major Scofield, who commanded the batteries in the action, show that this victory was the most complete of any yet achieved by our army during the war. Jeff. Thompson escaped on foot, after having his horse killed under him. The rebel force was about 6,000, while ours was only 4,000.
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Interesting reports of battles in Missouri. (search)
d miles from the main body of our forces, pass between the strongly garrisoned fortresses of the enemy at Ironton and Cape Girardeau, distant only a few hours travel, the former by railroad and the latter by the Mississippi river, from St. Louis, andvered a package which he had thrown away, which, on inspection, proved to be a communication from Colonel Plummer, of Cape Girardeau, to the commandant at Ironton, stating that he was approaching our encampment with a large force, and asked his co-opRoss was in command. Col. Scofield had the artillery under charge, and Col. Plummer was present with the forces from Cape Girardeau. One of our men, just in from the neighborhood of Cape Girardeau, says that 2,500 men came by the way of that place, Cape Girardeau, says that 2,500 men came by the way of that place, and 3,000 landed at St. Genevieve and came by the way of Perryville. The balance of their forces came from Ironton. We lost three men dead, which we brought to camp; the balance--17 killed, 27 wounded, and 15 missing--fell into the enemy's hands.