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The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
Brilliant affair — attack on gunboats — Capture of artillery and prisoners. Mobile, October 12 --The following dispatch has been received by Lieutenant-General Taylor, who sent it to the Tribune for publication: "Three Yankee gunboats and four transports were up the river yesterday as far as Eastport. They landed two thousand men and three pieces of artillery. "Lieutenant-Colonel Kelly, with Forrest's old command (the Twelfth Tennessee), surprised the enemy, capturing three guns, twenty-five prisoners, and thirty horses. "Two hundred of the Yankees were drowned in attempting to re-embark on their boats. The first shot from our batteries penetrated the boiler of one of the transports, and many men were scalded and burnt to death. The boats have gone down the river. Our victory was complete. "[Signed] N. B. Forrest, Major-General.
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], From the Valley. (search)
Runaway. --one hundred Dollars Reward will be paid Safe delivery to me of my Servant Granville. He has been working on the William Taylor, on the Fredericksburg, about ten miles from Richmond. He has in that neighborhood within the last few day. Granville is about twenty-four years old ten or eleven inches high, and very black. He is very slender; stammers some when speaks very quick. Malvina Ambrose. Corner Clay and Adams streets, Richmond. oc 13--2t*