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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ling urgently for more troops, while bridges were burring and insurrection raising its fearful head in the interior. In the Price and McCulloch were pressed back to Missouri, and in danger of attack from a mont, and afterwards Hunter. General Zollicoffer was considered in imminent danger from a very large force that was pressing him from the direction of Camp Dick Robinson; and Nelson was at Prestonsburg and Piketon, preparing to cross the Cumberland Mountain into Virginia with ten thousanfrom the vicinity of Pound Gap, dropping several of his cannon, drowning many of his horses in the river, and leaving tents, baggage, and supplies in glorious confusion all along the path of his unpursued retreat. The enemy's force before Zollicoffer caught the same Bull Run fever that seems to seize his armies in turn everywhere with equal violence. We published, a few days ago, their own melancholy tale of the dreadful flight. It was the most marvelous phenomenon we recollect to have r