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The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Handsome present. (search)
uffians, under Lane and Montgomery, who are burning towns, and marching down the Arkansas frontier. McCulloch has only 3,500 men. He proclaims that he needs three regiments of infantry immediately for twelve months service and calls urgently for a general rally for the defence of the State. Gen. Harder's command. The Memphis Appeal, of Saturday, says: We learn that a portion of Gen. Hardee's command, heretofore stationed above Pocahontas, Ark., has been moved over to Point Pleasant, Missouri, a place twelve miles below New Madrid, on the west bank of the Mississippi river. The balance of his forces, with the General himself, were to have arrived at the same point yesterday, his purpose, as is understood, being to co-operate with General Johnston's army in Kentucky. The recent series of brilliant successes that have attended our arms in Missouri, resulting in driving the enemy up towards St. Louis, is no doubt the cause of this move, Pocahontas being no longer a po
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], War Matters. (search)
ey may be too late. It is believed now firmly, by the best informed, that the Federal gunboats cannot descend the river to Memphis. Our people are resolute and hopeful under this conviction. Major-General Bragg has ordered martial law to be established at Memphis. The Memphis Appeal, of the 9th, publishes a letter from New Madrid, giving an account of several sharp skirmishes between pickets, in all of which the enemy had been worsted.--A force of the enemy had appeared at Point Pleasant, Mo., ten miles below New Madrid, with the view of cutting off communication with Memphis by river. Com. Hollins was about to proceed down with two gunboats, for the purpose of shelling out the nest. The following is General Beauregard's order assuming the command of the Army of the Mississippi: Headquarters Army of the Mississippi, Jacksoo, Tenn., March 5, 1862. Soldiers: I assume this day the command of the Army of the Mississippi, for the defence of our homes and liber
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
he rebel who led them into this ambuscade. The War in Kentucky--Another Invasion by Morgan. Louisville, Aug. 7 --The Journal publishes a rumor of Morgan's advance into Kentucky, and his capture of Burksville, with an increased force of cavalry, expressing a determination to march to the banks of the Ohio. Military circles here disbelieve the whole story. Attempted resistance to the enrollment act. Cairo, August. 7 --A skirmish took place yesterday near Point Pleasant, Missouri, between the citizens and State troops, in which it is reported that several were killed on both sides. It seems that the citizens bound themselves together to resist the enrollment act. Troops were sent from New Madrid to enforce the law, and hence the collision. From St. Louis. St. Louis, August. 7. --Brig. Gen'l Davidson has assumed command of the military district of St Louis. Colonel Merrill, formerly commandant of this district, has been commissioned a Brigadier.
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