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The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at the South. (search)
ts result was immediate marching orders — time, double-quick. Their forced march through brake and briar, over hill and dale, day and night, sunshine and rain, is represented as almost beyond endurance. Numbers fell by the wayside, sick, exhausted, and dying. Baggage, arms, munitions of war, food, was left behind at various points, in their hurried flight.--They took time neither to eat nor sleep.--After two days of intolerable marching they succeeded in reaching a place of safety. Gen. Nelson, it is said, has withdrawn his entire brigade as unfit for active service. In some of its regiments more than three hundred men are reported on the sick list Truly, if the boastful legions of the Kentucky Falstaff quail thus early in the war, and fly before an enemy is in sight, what would they do if a few shining bayonets were to appear in actual pursuit? The people of St. Louis for the South--Germans . A gentleman connected with the famous New Orleans Washington Artillery, wh
The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Latest Southern news. (search)
and fifth shots fell short, and probably did no damage, as she was now too far off. Things in Northern Kentucky--heavy reinforcements of the Yankees. The Louisville Courier, of the 26th November, contains the following: Movements at Louisville and elsewhere unmistakably indicate a speedy advance move of the Yankees in overwhelming numbers. For some ten days past two or three regiments have arrived at Louisville daily and been sent forward towards Bowling Green. Gen. Bull Nelson's command has been withdrawn from Prestonsburg to the mouth of Sandy, whence it was taken to Louisville by steamboats. The Wildcat and Camp Dick Robinson troops seem to be concentrating about Danville and Crab Orchard. Arrest of a Lincoln recruiting officer. The Bowling Green, Kentucky, special correspondent of the Memphis Argus, writing under date of November 23, says: A man named Bartow made his appearance at the office of the Provost Marshal yesterday for the purpose