hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Russellville (Kentucky, United States) or search for Russellville (Kentucky, United States) in all documents.
Your search returned 2 results in 1 document section:
From Kentucky.
Floyd and Buckner — the Unionists in Bowling Green--plenty of everything — Congressional election — Reviews, &c.
[special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Russellville, Ky., Jan. 27, 1862.
Russellville, situated in "a low, green valley," twenty-eight miles from Bowling Green, and two hundred and thirty miles from Memphis, by railway, is a town containing three thousand inhabitants, and noted as the place where the Provisional Government was put on its legs.
.
As in other localities where troops have been massed, there is a perfect squeeze here, all the available space in the hotels and private houses being fully appropriated.
But notwithstanding the absence of comfort, one feels more at home in Russellville than in Bowling Green.
In the latter, the people are cool in their treatment of Southern soldiers, or at best, only tolerably polite and attentive.
The truth is, that before Gen. Johnston's army went to Bowling Green the bulk of the inhabita<