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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Sketches of "captured rebel Generals." (search)
ed kid command to within gunshot of the enemy to line and then skeltered himself behind a rock, until he was reproved by his officers for his cowardly conduct, when shame obliged him to face the enemy. By this time Shield's brigade had turned the enemy's left, and this saved Pillow's brigade from probable defeat. As the breaking out of the present rebellion he was appointed Major-General of the Tennessee State troops. He collected a force of several thousand men and proceeded to the Mississippi river, in the vicinity of Memphis, where he erected several batteries. He subsequently went to Columbus, Kentucky, and there commenced the fortification of that place, but before the mark was completed he was un by Bishop Polk, who was appointed Major General in the Provisional army of the rebel States. Pillow was obliged to assures w ordinate position, which was not very flattering to his vanity. About one month ago a difference of opinion in regard to army matters across between Pillow