Named Entity Results, Arkansas (Arkansas, United States)

Latest from the North. Petersburg, Jan, 20. --The Baltimore American, of Saturday evening, it received. It says the fighting commenced at Arkansas Port on the evening of the 10th. The garrison, 7,000 strong surrendered on the 11th, under . The rebels were cut off from retreat on both sides of the river. Nashville.Jan. 16.--Forrest, of the rebel army, with a force of 4,050 men and 12 pieces of artillery, attacked the relief and store slips coming up the Cumberland, and succeeded in capturing five steamboats inden with valuable commissary stores, and the gunboat . Several of the boats contained wounded soldiers who jumping while the boats were burning, were about in the water. The boats were all burned. A heavy rain it now falling, and the river is rising rapidly. The Louisville road cannot be repaired for a long and there is no mail communication. The wires between Nashville and Murfreesboro' were cut by the Secessionists, and there is no news from Nes

Arkansas Post. If the subjugation of those States depended upon battles fought on paper, the Yankees would certainly subjugate them in a very short time.--Their battles on the field are almost always disastrous to themselves, on paper, they arehe field at Murfreesborough and Vicksburg. They have made themselves amends, after their fashion, by a great victory at Arkansas Post. With regard to the details of this exploit, as published by as yesterday from the New York Herald, we must say that we are utterly incredulous. Arkansas Post is an old French settlement in Arkansas county, on the Arkansas river, about one hundred miles above the mouth. It was a post during the existence of the United States, and was held by a small force,f we placed credit in this alleged victory, we should be at a loss to know from whence so many men came, how they got to Arkansas Post, who commanded them, and what could have induced them to surrender without inflicting a loss of more than one hundr

The capture of Arkansas Post. Arkansas Post, which is reported in the Northern papers to have been captured by the Federal fleet and land forces, is on White river, about 100 miles from its mouth. It is a square fort, with bastions, mounting four 52 pounders, smooth bore, and one 100 pound Parrott gun. It is not likely that the force of Confederates there approximated even 5,000 men, the lowest figure at which the Federal reports place the number of captured men — The fleet under Porter, Arkansas Post, which is reported in the Northern papers to have been captured by the Federal fleet and land forces, is on White river, about 100 miles from its mouth. It is a square fort, with bastions, mounting four 52 pounders, smooth bore, and one 100 pound Parrott gun. It is not likely that the force of Confederates there approximated even 5,000 men, the lowest figure at which the Federal reports place the number of captured men — The fleet under Porter, which made the attack, was backed by a land force, under McClernand, which seems to have gotten in rear of the fort, as the Federals report that their loss--two hundred--was chiefly caused by the shell from their own gunboats. The Post was attacked on the evening of the 10th and surrendered on the 11th. The report says that the Confederates were out off from retreat on both sides of the river. The dispatches containing all this information are the first published in the Yankee journals, and t