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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
ting hastily to Rolla, whither — report now has it — Hardee, with 12,000 men, has — by previous concert of action with McCulloch — been gradually tending for some days past, in order to intercept the return of the Federals either to Jefferson or this city; and after using them up, and being joined by McCulloch, to pursue his triumphal march. If that march should bring him here — and there would seem to be reason to believe it may, if the rumor current on the streets, to the effect that General Thompson last evening took possession of Pilot Knob, the Southern terminus of the Iron Mountain Railroad, be true — if, I say, his march should bring him here, there must of necessity be a severe fight, even within the city limits; for Fremont has several thousand troops at the arsenal, the barracks, and elsewhere in the immediate vicinity, and for several days has been planting cannon on all the principal roads leading to it on the west and south. You will not wonder, then, that people sh