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The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern and Southern news. (search)
. Washington, Jan. 22, 1862. --The following was received at headquarters to-night: Louisville, Jan. 22, 1862. To Major-General McClellan, Commanding United States Army: The rout of the enemy was complete. After succeeding in getting two pieces of artillery across the river and upwards of fifty wagons, they were abandoned with all the ammunition in the depot in Mill Spring. They then threw away their arms and dispersed through the mountain by ways in the direction of Monticello but are so completely demoralized that I do not believe they will make a stand short of Tennessee. The property captured on this side of the river is of great value, amounting to eight 6-pounders and two Parrott guns, with caissons filled with ammunition; about one hundred four-horses wagons, and upwards of 1,200 horses and mules, several boxes of arms which had never been opened, and from 500 to 1,000 muskets, mostly with flint locks, but in good order; subsistence stores enough to s
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Amusements. (search)
h of over twenty-five miles to reach the position in time for the affair. This position, to which General Thomas had proceeded, and in which he had halted on Saturday night with a view of crossing the Cumberland and proceeding southeast to Monticello, is about six miles east of Jamestown and twelve miles west of Mill Spring, or the entrenchments of Zollicoffer, at White Oak Creek. A country road leading to Jamestown runs due east for six miles, crossing two small streams and traversing a rolling country; thence, taking a turn southeast and crossing the Cumberland, continues in the same direction to Monticello. In the immediate vicinity of the two small streams crossed by this road the country is quite hilly, and to the south becomes rough and rugged, culminating in the lofty crags that form the banks of the Cumberland at this point. The road named, however, avoids these crags, and, following the course of a small stream two miles further east, finds a good descent and crossin