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The Daily Dispatch: may 18, 1861., [Electronic resource] 7 1 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1862., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
to the posts west of San Antonio and on to the Rio Grande at El Paso. Maj. H. A. Hamner was left to occupy posts on the route, and Lieutenant-Colonel Baylor went beyond the river into the Mesilla valley. He took a large number of prisoners and paroled them, and held possession of that part of New Mexico for a short time. He found the people opposed to the Confederates generally. His companies were merged into and became a part of Geo. W. Baylor's regiment in the Arizona campaign. Col. Wm. C. Young, under the appointment of Governor Clark, raised a cavalry regiment for the protection of our northern frontier on Red river. He crossed the river and captured Forts Arbuckle, Washita and Cobb, when the Federal forces under Maj. Wm. H. Emery retired into Kansas. This regiment was early next year (1862), with other Texas commands, in the battle of Elkhorn, Mo. The Confederate Congress adjourned the latter part of May, 1861, to meet at Richmond, Va., on the 20th of July, and Texas,
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
in addition to Greer's Third cavalry, as follows: Sixth Texas cavalry, Col. B. Warren Stone, Lieut.-Col. J. S. Griffith, Maj. L. S. Ross; Fourth (Ninth) cavalry, Col. Wm. B. Sims, Lieut.-Col. T. G. Berry, Maj. J. N. Dodson; Eleventh cavalry, Col. W. C. Young, Lieut.-Col. Jas. J. Diamond; battalion of Mounted Rifles, Maj. John W. Whitfield; and Capt. John J. Good's artillery company. In the following spring he moved into Missouri, where he was joined by General Price with his Missouri troops, anen sent to the State, by whom some troops that had been raised (not naming them) had at once been received into the Confederate service, and the State thereby relieved from further charge of them; that for the defense of the northern border, Col. W. C. Young had been authorized to raise a cavalry regiment; that the heavy guns that had been surrendered at Fort Clark had been conveyed to the coast; that he had appointed in compliance with law brigadier-generals in thirty-two districts to organize
The Daily Dispatch: may 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 25 (search)
Congress from Philadelphia, died in Rome, Italy, on the 23d ult. The Confederate Congress has adopted a resolution requesting the President to appoint a day of lasting and prayer. "Propitious weather and beautiful crops" in the tone of the intelligence from Western Virginia. Robert Alken was crushed to death in the paper mill at Trenton, New Jersey, on the 15th inst. The American sailed for Liverpool on Wednesday, taking out about $13,000 in specie. Messrs. Collier, Young, and Shell, are raising a company of Artillery in Petersburg. Col. John Woolfolk, as old citizen of Columbus, Ga. died on the 18th inst. Ex-Gov. McMulten was in Alexandria on Thursday. A Spanish squadron, with 8,000 troops, has sailed for St. Domingo. The Legislature of Ohio adjourned sine dis on Tuesday. There are 3,200 applicants for office in the Philadelphia Custom House. Louis Napoleon has entered his fifty-third year. The negroes of New York talk of f
The Daily Dispatch: may 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Alleged Confederate agent. (search)
Mr. Geo. W. Wright, direct from Paris, Texas, which place he left on Monday, 6th inst., states that the night previous to his leaving an express arrived from Col. Wm. C. Young asking for assistance in besieging Fort Arbuckle, in the Indian Nation. Col. Young had already taken Fort Washita, but found no arms. He had with him 500 T assistance in besieging Fort Arbuckle, in the Indian Nation. Col. Young had already taken Fort Washita, but found no arms. He had with him 500 Texans, and 1000 Choctaw Indians. 1,500 U. S. troops were reported to be in Fort Arbuckle. Northern Texas was volunteering en masse to go to Young's assistance.--N. O. Picayune, 14th. r assistance in besieging Fort Arbuckle, in the Indian Nation. Col. Young had already taken Fort Washita, but found no arms. He had with him 500 Texans, and 1000 Choctaw Indians. 1,500 U. S. troops were reported to be in Fort Arbuckle. Northern Texas was volunteering en masse to go to Young's assistance.--N. O. Picayune, 14th.
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
e plot was discovered, and created intense excitement. The Marshall (Texas) Republican says: A bout seventy men were arrested, the most of them, as we understand, low characters, with here and there a man of limited influence. About twenty-four of these were tried and executed, when the community was freshly excited by the intelligence that the son of the hotel keeper at Gainesville, (whose name we do not recollect,) had been waylaid and assassinated several miles from town. Col. William C. Young and several others went out to get the body, but had not reached the spot when some one in ambush shot Young through the head, killing him instantly, Such was the exasperation caused by these assassinations that the community hung several others. The number executed in Cook county, at last accounts, reached forty-two, and two others were shot in attempting to make their camps. The extent of the plot was not known, but was not supposed to be very extensive. How could it be, when th