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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Military movements. (search)
man who had him in charge, and succeeded in making his escape to his comrades, four miles distant! He is represented is one of the bravest and most daring boys in the service — his courage, in fact, amounting to an almost reckless daring. News Rumors and lies from the Louisville journal. From a copy of the Louisville (Ky.) Journal. of the 30th of September, we extract the following items: Manchester Taken.--We have reliable news of the taking of Manchester, Clay county, by Zollicoffer and his men, with a great destruction of property. Destruction of a Bridge over Green River.--The bridge across Green river, on the Bardstown and Nashville Turnpike, eight miles from the railroad bridge over Green river, was destroyed by the rebels on Thursday last. The necessity which led to this destruction of valuable property is not known, but it is supposed that the rascals were suddenly seized with a desire to commit some unnatural outrage, and that the bridge in question, hav
The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Teems of the Dispatch. (search)
umbus with his command. Gen. Jeff. Thompson's force is now at New Madrid, bound to St. Louis, for the purpose of joining Gen. Fierce and General McCulloch. Gen Clarke is moving hence in the same direction, with 20 cannon. Gen.Fremont's safety is endangered, and 8,000 of his troops have moved Paducah-ward from Columbus. The Kentuckians are redeeming Kentucky and predict that the Southern winter quarters will be at St. Louis, Louisville, Washington and Baltimore. Nashville, Oct. 4.--A gentleman who arrived this evening, from Eastern Kentucky, says the Federals, 4,000 strong, advanced from Camp Dick Robinson to Big hill, 60 miles nearer the Tennessee line, with the view of fortifying themselves so as to prevent Zollicoffer's march into Kentucky. Our troops had not advanced beyond Green river. The Federals are fortifying Elizabethtown, where they are encamped, 8,000 strong, with eight cannon, but necessaries only sufficient to last them but a few days.