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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Public meeting in Memphis for the defence of the City. (search)
ed should the enemy descend the Valley of the Mississippi. Resolved, That Messrs. Miller, Apperson, McDavit and Nelson, be a committee to confer with the commanding generals at Columbus, and to tender to them such pecuniary aid as may be needed to expedite building of the submarine batteries they now have under construction. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to confer at once with our generals at Columbus, Ky., and urge upon them the necessity of immediately closing the Mississippi river at some point with formidable rafts or otherwise, under the supervision of a competent engineer. Laid on the table. The first, second, third and fourth resolutions were adopted without opposition. The fifth resolution was adopted, and the address which it called for was read by Col. J. T. Trezevant, as follows: To the Citizens of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana: The long threatened invasion of the Valley of the Mississippi is at our d