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The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], War Matters. (search)
nce to the formidable disaffection in East Tennessee. The temporary and accidental success of Schœpff at Somerset has taken the enemy by surprise. They were expecting no victory in that quarter, and their elation at the unexpected and unusual news exceeds all bounds. Forth with is Schœpff confirmed as a Brigadier General, and the fertile invention of the Yankee is excessively busy in bringing out fictitious instances of gallantry and prowess, alleged to have occurred on the banks of Mill Creek. From small dimensions, the victory grows daily into greater proportions. It has already been magnified into a full offset to Bull Run, and is in a fair way to become an American Waterloo or Blenheim. We have candidly conceded them a victory; but our loss of life and men little, if at all, exceeds their own; and the balance against us consists at last only of items of animals, wagons, stores, and other mere materiel of war. The problem remains after all unsolved, whether they can re
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], War Matters. (search)
utenant of the French corvette, and also the French Consul of this city, on the part of the commander of that vessel, to state that the paragraph which appeared in this paper yesterday from the New York Herald, in relation to the said commander giving information, there stated, is a bass lie, and to state further that he has written to the French paper in New York to this effect. The Ericsson Battery. We learn that the Monitor during the day takes a position in the neighborhood of Mill creek, and at night returns to Newport News. The report that other vessels have been sent to that point by the Federals is untrue. The War in the West. The Memphis Avaianche, of the 8th, alluding to the situation of affairs at New Madrid, says: We have no reliable advices from this point of deep military interest. A great battle is now regarded as imminent at that place. It is understood the Federals are concentrating a large force for the attack, and the Confederates are rap
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Rappahannock lines. (search)
Progress of Gen. Forrest. Mobile July 27. --A special dispatch to the Advertiser and Register, dated Chattanooga, 26th instant, says Col. Lawton, of the Georgia cavalry, arrived here to day with three Yankee Lieutenants prisoners captured near Nashville. General Forrest burned three bridges over Mill Creek, on the Nashville road, and had an engagement with a party of Yankees, killing ten, wounding fifteen, and capturing eight. He was within three miles of Nashville. Great excitement prevailed wherever he appeared. The patriotic lydian made his progress a grand ovation along the entire route.
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Southwest. (search)
ll, which is between Murfreesboro and Lebanon, and about ten miles South of the letter point. Rosseu's division, (Federal,) consisting of ten thousand men, is still at Galla in. On Thursday last Gen. Wharton's brigade was engaged in a series of brilliant skirmishes in the neighborhood of Mill Creek, about eight miles from Jurville, in which one hundred of the enemy was killed. There was also extensive skirmishing on Friday and Saturday by the same forces. Our troops still occupy Mill Creek. ll, which is between Murfreesboro and Lebanon, and about ten miles South of the letter point. Rosseu's division, (Federal,) consisting of ten thousand men, is still at Galla in. On Thursday last Gen. Wharton's brigade was engaged in a series of brilliant skirmishes in the neighborhood of Mill Creek, about eight miles from Jurville, in which one hundred of the enemy was killed. There was also extensive skirmishing on Friday and Saturday by the same forces. Our troops still occupy Mill Creek.
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