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The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Washington Volunteers. (search)
band of Lincoln vandals, led by P. D. Yeiser, landed at Eddyville on the 19th inst., and, true to their infamous instincts, forthwith set about gratifying their thieving propensities. They entered the office of R. H. Cobb, Esq., and destroyed his desks, papers, and everything else of a destructible char acter. They knocked a large hole in his vault, but failed in their efforts to open his safe. They destroyed everything in the office of Robert Cobb, who is now first Lieutenant in Capt. Lyons's artillery company at Bowling Green. They then made a descent upon the grocery establishments, and after getting heartily drunk they loaded their gun-boat and steamed away in search of other prey. This fellow Yeiser swears hugely, and threatens the desolation of the entire Cumberland border. Attempt at bridge burning — the incendiary hung. The Rome (Ga.) Southerner says an attempt was made to burn the bridge across Pettet's Creek, on the State Road, one and a half miles a