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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
The Recent Engagement in Kentucky between Confederate Batteries and Federal vessels. We make the subjoined extract from a letter in the Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal of Sept. 11, dated Hickman, Ky., Sept. 5th. I suppose that long before this reaches you, the telegraph will have informed you of our movements in this direction, and, also of our little semi-naval engagement of yesterday, between one of our gunboats, Capt. Hamilton's and Capt. Jackson's batteries, and two of Lincoln's practical craft, which of late, have been cruising about from below this point to Cairo and Paducah. As this incident was initiatory of what may prove a bloody conflict in this section of our military operations, and withal was somewhat interesting and exciting, I will endeavor to relate the circumstances of the fight as correctly as possible. A little after 12 o'clock yesterday, General Chestham, who has command of the forces here, received a telegraphic dispatch, from Columbus, stating that