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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,
The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], War to keep off a Worse war. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Crime and Retribution. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Interesting reports of battles in Missouri . (search)