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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Potomac. (search)
Daring Adventures in Missouri. --A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal, writing from New Madrid, 11th instant, records the doings of a few true patriots, and mentions Leedswell as deserving a place in the history of this war, which has yet to be written. He says: Three days ago a scouting party of five, all told, under a Lieutenant, while moving along the railroad line, between Charleston and Bird's Point, discovered the "Feds" in force. They had moved out that far in the cars, and were advancing South ward on their usual and nearly daily tour of stealing. Our men estimated them to number about 1,500, including 250 cavalry. Nothing daunted, this little band actually determined to ambuscade them a mile South of the road, at a favorable place, as they passed through a woods. Being all of them armed with shot guns, and shooting only buck shot, each fire sent nine shot into their thick ranks as they came marching past, hardly one failing to hit some one somewhere. The