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The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hatteras and the coast defence. (search)
ille taken by General Buckner--large quantity of Arms, &c., captured — escape of an editor — a Convention to be called — Arrival of distinguished Englishmen, &c. Nashville Sept. 30. --Passengers by today's trains report that Gen. Buckner broke up the Union camp in Owen county on Saturday last, capturing 460 stand of arms and their camp equipage. The Unionists ran and some Indianians swam the river. Gen. Buckner, it is reported, has gone to Hopkinsville to disperse the Union camp, Smithland, occupied by the Federals on the 24th. The Louisville Democrat, of the 27th ult., states that Hon. John C. Breckinridge and George B. Hodge are fifty miles above Richmond, Ky., with 2,800 men, drilling. Gov. Morehead, R. T. Durrett, and Burr, have arrived at Fort Lafayette. James B. Clay, and W. G. Overton, of the Louisville Courier, have been arrested, but Minister Preston has escaped. L. B. Munroe, U. S. District Judge, and L. B. Munroe, Jr., Secretary of State of Ken<
The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Handsome present. (search)
at 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 position of any great strategic importance. The Lincoln troops in possession of Smithland, Ky. The Nashville Gazette, of Sunday, says: Capt. Ben. F. Egan arrived in our city yesterday, direct from Smithland, and gives us information in regard to the landing of the Hessians, which he witnessed. The steamer Empress came up the Smithland, and gives us information in regard to the landing of the Hessians, which he witnessed. The steamer Empress came up the Ohio river on Tuesday evening, 24th inst., with a regiment of infantry, and a company of cavalry, Federal troops, who disembarked and quietly took possession of the town. The citizens made no resistance; the women and children, however, welcomed them with oft-repeated cheers for Jeff. Davis. The officer issued no proclamation, nor held any communication whatever with the citizens. The entire command were evidently in great fear and alarm, and one hundred determined men could have put the who