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The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Northern war News. (search)
Thirty-five of their number are known to be killed, and five taken prisoners. The loss on the Federal side was none killed and six wounded. Corporal Nolan received a severe but not fatal wound in the breast. A private who was carrying a small Union flag was fired at from a house as the troops were marching through the town, the ball passing through both legs. This so fired the soldiers that they concluded to fire the town, which was accordingly done, and an hour later the village of Boone was among the things that were, every house in it, including the Court-House and jail, being burned to the ground. Among the things captured are twenty-two horses, and a considerable quantity of arms, consisting of flint-lock muskets, double barrel shot-guns, and rifles. [The foregoing statement of the Confederate loss is a lie. We have already published a correct account of the affair.] Gen. Polk's proclamation. Gen. Polk, of the Confederate States Army, has issued the fo