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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 128 (search)
Col. Prentis, the commanding officer at Cairo received the following despatch from three of the most prominent citizens of Cincinnati:
General Pillow has several steamers ready at Memphis.
He meditates an immediate attack on Cairo, Illinois.
Col. Prentiss replied:
Let him come.
He will learn to dig his ditch on the right side.
I am ready. --Portsmouth (N. H.) Ballot.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 320 (search)
General Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky, writes to a friend in Cincinnati, under date of April 27, as follows:--
We could not control the Governor and his coconspirators, but we appealed to the people, and on next Saturday we expect to elect John J. Crittenden, James Guthrie, and others, to a brotherly peace conference--by a majority unparalleled heretofore in Kentucky.
I shall not be surprised at fifty thousand.
The destructionists, anticipating their fate, have recently resolved to abandon the contest.
Then, in Heaven's name 1 let us alone — keep the peace on your side of the river, and we will give treason such a rebuke in Old Kentucky that it will never again dare to raise its hideous head among us. We cannot turn our Governor out of office till his term expires, and he is the military commander-in-chief of the State; but we can keep Kentucky in the Union--if you will let us.
When a beardless boy, I left my father's home in Kentucky, and marched, with thousands of brav
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 524 (search)
Appalachicola, Florida.--Captain S. G. Sexton, of Savannah, pilot of the steamship Florida, and Mr. William Philips, pilot of the new steamship Mississippi, not yet completed, arrived in Macon from New York, having fled from New York for their lives.
They came by the way of Cincinnati and Nashville.
They report hard times with some of the Southern steamship captains.
The Alabama was seized and pressed into Government service, and Captain Schenck offered the alternative of the yard-arm or to retain command of his vessel as a United States transport.
tie took the latter, and is now carrying troops to Annapolis.
Commodore Michael Berry, of the Charleston steamship Columbia, had a narrow escape with his life.
His ship was seized in like manner, and when he refused to go into service, they proceeded summarily to the work of execution; but by good luck lie slipped his neck out of the rope, jumped overboard, was taken up by a steam-tug, and escaped.
A blood-thirsty spirit runs r