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The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Three hundred Dollars Reward. (search)
now progressing that will astonish and delight the country. The Democrat contains an account of the evacuation of Johnsonville yesterday by the Union commandant of that place, who is also reported to have destroyed all the transports and gunboat"astonishing the country." A dispatch from Cincinnati says: The correspondent of the Journal, writing from Johnsonville, Tennessee, says: "Eight steamboats, loaded with Government stores have been burned here to prevent their falling into the t, on Thursday last, Forrest, with a large force, placed batteries on the Tennessee river, within a mile and a half of Johnsonville, where three gunboats and eight transports were lying. Early Friday morning Forrest moved the batteries up and oamount of Government stores and considerable artillery is reported captured. It is also supposed that the supplies at Johnsonville were taken. All is quiet along the White river, in Arkansas. St. Charles is re-occupied and garrisoned with
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
as received at the War Department on Saturday: "Tuscumbia, Alabama, November 8, 1864. "General S. Cooper, "Adjutant and Inspector-General: "General Forrest reports on the 5th instant that he was then engaged fighting the enemy at Johnsonville, having already destroyed four gunboats, of eight guns each; fourteen steamers and twenty barges, with a large quantity of quartermaster and commissary stores, on the landing and in warehouses, estimated at between seventy-five and one hundredo say nothing of gunboats, transports and barges, is many millions of greenbacks; but even this is not the worst of it. They relied upon these stores to support Sherman's army, and their destruction must very much embarrass its movements. Johnsonville, which is named after Andy Johnson, Military Governor of Tennessee and Vice- President elect of the United States, is on the east bank of the Tennessee river, four miles above Reynoldsburg, and is the terminus of the Northwestern railroad, whi
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
dated the 6th, and says: I will try to telegraph you the news and rumors subjoined: Sharp fighting at Johnsonville, Tennessee. Twelve transports and four gunboats destroyed. Johnsonville may possibly be evacuated. Its loss will not endaJohnsonville may possibly be evacuated. Its loss will not endanger the State, but be annoying only. Sherman has made a startling and bold movement, which will change the course of the campaign and render Atlanta of no strategic importance. Rumors prevail that Atlanta was to be evacuated yesterday by our t increase the excitement of the Presidential canvass. So this dispatch may not be permitted to go through. As to Johnsonville, there is no doubt. The damaging of three gunboats is admitted, and the loss of one. Heavy fighting is expected at JJohnsonville today. There were large supplies collected at that point. It is said by some that they have been removed to a considerable extent, but, on the other hand, it is reported this morning that the town is surrounded, badly damaged by shells,
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
ional force of ten thousand. His latest movements do not indicate an intention of early offensive operations. Beauregard, with the rebel General Stewart's corps, was still at Corinth, Mississippi, when last heard of . General Thomas, commanding the Union army designed to check Hood's advance, is rapidly concentrating his forces, as though disposed to make an attack on the rebels in some direction. As we have already stated, the rebel reports of the destruction of government property at Johnsonville, on the Tennessee river, by Forrest, were immensely exaggerated. We now learn that there was only one building in the place destroyed. It is still held by a division of Union troops. The Chicago Tribune gives the following fancy predictions: Charleston will be cut off, and Sherman's army of fifty-five thousand men will be free to act as circumstances demand, and will be on the sea-coast, ready for embarkation at a moment's notice, so that they can be used with Grant or Sherid
The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
oth the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers are in fine boating order, and will prove valuable auxiliaries to military operations in Tennessee and Kentucky. The gunboats Peorla and Pawpaw returned here on Sunday from a reconnaissance up the Tennessee river. The bodies of Ensign Hare, of the gunboat Undine, and Captain Allen, of the transport Venus, killed when their vessels were captured by Forrest's gunboats, were found, . The river is lined with rebel pickets from Pine bluff to Johnsonville. The rebel General Lyon, in command of that district, has orders to watch the river closely and blockade it. Transports will begin running again soon. Forrest has a pontoon across the river at Chickasaw. Deserters and scouts report Hood's army at thirty-five thousand strong; with thirty-seven pieces of artillery. He intended to operate in Middle and Eastern Tennessee and Kentucky. He was marching on Pulaski, Giles county, Tennessee, and expected ultimately to seize Cumberland
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Death of W. R. W. Cobb. (search)
the shore, and the Sixteenth Louisiana been deployed as skirmishers, when the loud cheering of the boys on the south bank announced that the enemy were retreating; and they could be seen dashing up the hill towards town in regular 'devil-take-the-hindmost" style. The skirmishers now moved rapidly forward, killing and capturing a few of the enemy; and just after dark the brigade entered the town. " A letter from Forrest's command gives us a brief account of his successful affair at Johnsonville. It says: "Upon arriving in the vicinity of the town, he was surprised to find four gunboats at anchor in-the river and acting as convoy to transports. Not in the least daunted, however, by their presence, he put himself at the head of his command and dashed into the town.--The small garrison surrendered. So quick were his actions that the transports did not his actions that the transports did not have time to get up steam and away before his men boarded them and took possession.
The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], North Carolina. (search)
r ashore and land her on this side. She was thus brought in by Colonel Bell. She proved to have a light cargo, mostly furniture. The successful fight at Johnsonville, by Rucker's brigade, is thus described. Since our fight at Paris landing, we have been moving up the river in search of more prey, and on yesterday we succeeded in coming up with two of the enemy's boats below Johnsonville, which gave us a few shots and retired. During the cover of darkness, last night, Colonel Rucker put one of his regiments in position on the river banks, near the town, and also Captain Morton, with his splendid battery. At early dawn this morning three gunboats commenced throwing out "feelers," and to their sorrow they found out where the rebels were. The bottom opposite Johnsonville is almost impassable, but the persevering Rucker and the indomitable Morton made their movement regardless of mud and water. About 3 o'clock this evening the engagement became general. Colonel
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
n heard from Hood's army on our front since yesterday evening, the telegraph wires being down. Hood made an assault on our works at Columbia, south of Duck river, on Saturday, and was badly repulsed. A small portion of the rebel cavalry have succeeded in crossing Duck river. Hood has made other developments of his plans; but thus far he has accomplished nothing further than conscripting some of his "dear friends." There is no foundation for the rumor of the evacuation of Johnsonville, except a proper preparation for possible contingencies. The military situation is satisfactory to the authorities. The impression gains ground that Hood will move east, across the Chattanooga, possibly with the hope of accomplishing something by co-operating with Breckinridge. The Herald, commenting upon General Hood's movement, says: Hood appears to have had his whole army across the Tennessee on the 13th instant, and the latest rebel accounts tell us that his army w
The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Seamstress and Chambermaid. (search)
n the Cumberland river. The enemy's lines are clearly to be seen from high points in the suburbs and from the capitol. They are entrenching themselves in a southwestern direction, about three miles from the city. During the day, heavy skirmishing occurred on our left, and progressed along the line to the centre. Many persons witnessed the cannonading. Along the right of our lines nothing of importance has transpired to-day. The same dispatch says that the Yankees have evacuated Johnsonville, and that a fort on the Chattanooga road, garrisoned by negro infantry, had been captured by the Confederates, a Colonel Johnson and a few privates only escaping. The road between Louisville and Nashville had not yet been cut. A telegram from Louisville, dated the 3d instant, says: A Nashville letter states that on Wednesday evening Captain's brigade of cavalry, consisting of the Fourteenth Illinois, Seventh Ohio, Fifth Iowa and Eighth Michigan cavalry regiments, was surrounded by
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
d in position by the rebels. A dispatch from Louisville, dated the 6th instant, says: A special dispatch to the Journal, dated Nashville, December 6; says the rebels lost at Franklin ten general officers, among whom were Generals Goran and Quarles, not previously reported. General Cheatham escaped capture only by the fleetness of his horse. The Louisville Journal learns that General Cooper's brigade of white and a brigade of colored troops, the latter of which garrisoned Johnsonville prior to its evacuation, both of which were cut off from the main army when General Schofield retreated from Franklin, have arrived at Clarksville. The Nashville train arrived here on time this evening. Passengers who left Nashville this morning at six o'clock report that all was quiet there at that time. There had been some slight skirmishing the previous night. The steamers Prima Donna, Prairie State and Magnet, captured yesterday on the Cumberland river, were recaptured to-
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