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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cheering (search)
Troops in Southwest Missouri. --A letter to the St. Louis State Journal from Independence, Mo., dated the 1st instant, gives the following interesting report of the strength and positions of the belligerents in Southwest Missouri at that time. The places named as the encampments of the State troops are in the neighborhood of the town of Carthage, where it is reported the engagement so disastrous to the Federalists took place: Yesterday two gentlemen well known here, arrived from Gen. Rains' camp, from whom I gather the following. The State troops under Rains, numbering 8,000 men, are encamped at Ball's Mills, in Vernon county, 12 miles from Paninsville.--The men are in good spirits and health.--Within 20 miles are 2,500 more State troops.--Men were gathering constantly into the camp, and a vigorous and healthy military training were adopted by the officers. At the end of this week from 10,000 to 17,000 Southern and State troops will be in camp, well armed and provisi
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
From Missouri. Independence, Mo., July 29. --The Federal steamer White Cloud, on yesterday, fired into the Blue Mills landing, killing several citizens. It is reported that these Federal vandals had burned ferry houses, depredated in several of the towns on the river, and have greatly incensed the people.
The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of Major Weightman. (search)
notice of the U. S. Government; with that exception, which happened twelve weeks ago, no foreign government has expressed a word of discontent to this Government concerning the blockade. On the contrary, it is universally respected by foreign Governments, although some of their subjects are very active in endeavoring to evade the blockade, and very clamorous against it. The Surrender of Federal troops. The following is a fuller account of a circumstance already noticed: Independence, Mo., Aug. 19. --The Santa Fe mail and Cannon City Express arrived last evening with dates from Santa Fe to the 5th, and from Cannon City to the 9th inst. A report had reached Santa Fe two days before the mail left that Major Lynch, of the 7th Infantry U. S. Army, in command of about 500 Federal troops, surrendered to a force of Texan troops, some 3,000 strong, without firing a shot. Major Lynch abandoned Fort Fillmore on the 26th ult., and marched toward Fort Staunton, eighteen m
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Excitement in Grayson county. (search)
Excitement in Grayson county. --Considerable excitement exists in Independence, Grayson county, relative to the murder of James Taylor, by John Isom and his son Fielding, an account of which we published several days since. The two Isoms, and John Green, charged with the murder of Rufus Cox, are confined in the jail at Independence, and on Thursday evening last, some thirty or forty persons from the neighborhood visited the place with the intention of hanging them. They were however, persuaded to forego their purpose for that time, but determined to carry it into execution on Monday last. The crowd called at the jail and informed the prisoners of their determination, and exhorted them to make their peace with God, and prepare to die on Monday, assuring them their execution was a fixed and unalterable fact. The citizens were much excited on the matter, and it is thought the attempt to execute summary vengeance, how much soever the diabolical crimes of the accused deserved it,
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
Thorne, fifty miles from Fort Craig, advancing on the latter place. Their supplies were scarce, their transportation poor, and their only alternative was to fight or starve to death. Our folks are anxious for a battle. They have every advantage, and are confident of success provided there be no treachery. grand pontifical mass meeting was field in all the churches of the Territory on the 10th, to pray for the souls of Catholics killed in battle. A skirmish occurred at Independence, Mo., on the 18th inst., between a detachment of Ohio cavalry and a band of rebels headed by one Quantrel Parker. The latter were routed, with a loss of three killed, several wounded, and several taken prisoners. A quantity of arms was also captured. The Federal loss was one killed and three wounded. "the opening of the cotton Market." Under the heading, the New York Herald, of the 27th, says: The Government is still receiving small supplies of cotton from Port Royal; but
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
rcements which the President has called for. Other loyal cities, towns, and villages, will doubtless follow with like expressions of their zeal for the great and good cause. Shall Philadelphia, then, be silent and passive? Shall the community in which our nationality had its birth, and where the Federal Constitution was framed and adopted, utter no rallying cry at a time when the armed ranks of treason are threatening to destroy the nation and its liberties? Certainly not. The "City of Independence" must proclaim her fidelity and devotion to the Government in a voice that may be heard all over the land, and her citizens must do all that they individually and collectively can do to raise and again at once Penn- sylvania's quota of the three hundred thousand troops called for by the President. Will not those of our citizens who usually initiate such movements take forth worth the preliminary steps for a town meeting to declare the resolution of Philadelphia to support the war u
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
movements of Pope and Burnside, and that fifteen thousand additional troops were sent to Stonewall Jackson on the previous Sunday, and an additional reinforcement of twenty-five thousand on the following day. Miscellaneous. The Federal account of the fight between Gen. Morgan (Federal) and Gen. Stevenson, (Confederate,) near Cumberland Gap, on the 5th inst., says the Federal captured large quantities of forage, tobacco, and mules, and killed and wounded 225 of the enemy. Independence, Mo., was attacked by Confederate guerrillas on the 11th, under Cols. Hughes and Quantrell, and the Federal force captured after an hour's fighting. The Federal report their own loss at 20 killed. The steamers Commodore, John Brooks, State of Mains, and ship Louisiana, arrived at Philadelphia on Monday with an aggregate of 1,400 sick and disabled soldiers from the hospitals of the Peninsula. Three hundred and eighty-four bales of cotton arrived at Cincinnati on Tuesday. The Lady
The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
his command was attacked and made aware of his capture. His friends urge that he has been harshly judged, as he only took command of the post the evening before, and went to a tavern to sleep "because his tent had not arrived." A miserable excuse this. He knew he was in the enemy's country, and should never have slept, or thought of his tent even, till he knew his camp was safe from attack. That first night of insecurity was fatal to him as a commander. Next came the capture of Independence, Mo., by Quantrell's guerrillas. We lost 500 prisoners there. But Independence was "surprised"--it "could not otherwise have been taken." Why surprised? The town stands in a prairie; the eye sweeps the horizon ten miles or more, in every direction. It was known Quantrell was recruiting in that neighborhood. He got his horde together — came "like a thief in the night," as a more honest soldier might, and captured the town and its defenders. What a name for such a town--Independence!
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