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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
ate the State of Missouri. On the 30th of July some of his partisans appear in arms far north, in the county of Sabine, on the right bank of the Missouri, and give fight to the local militia. A short time after, on August 30th, the Southern colonel Coffee, with one of these bands, wandering about in search of the Federal trains on the frontiers of Missouri, Arkansas, and the Indian Territory, attacks the post of Pineville in the south-western part of Missouri, and is repulsed with loss by the into the valley of the Arkansas, has removed it from the frontiers of Missouri and the Indian Territory, and has thereby given a little more confidence to the Confederate partisans, who avail themselves of this absence to renew their raids. Colonel Coffee reappears on the road that joins Fort Scott to Fort Gibson, and again threatens to cut off the latter post; but a detachment of three hundred Federal horsemen attack him on the 15th of September in the district of the Senecas, near the conflu
The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
Q. C. Lamar, of the same State, under an authorization from President Davis. The regiment numbers about 800 men. The following is a list of the officers; C. H. Mort, Colonel. L. Q. C. Lamar Lieutenant Colonel. --Major.* A. R. Govan, Adjutant. C. M. Thompson, Quartermaster. S. B. Malone, Commissary Oscar Rarbour, Sergeant Major. J. W. C. Smith, Surgeon. W. F. Hyer, Assistant Surgeon. captains of Companies.-- 1. Capt. Macon; 2. Capt. Martin; 3. Capt. Harris; 4. Capt. Coffee; 5. Capt. Mullins; 6. Capt. Vaughan; 7. Capt. Abernathy; 8. Capt. Hamer; 9. Capt. Hardin; 10. Capt. Tison. The regiment is encamped at the Old Fair Grounds, at the head of Main street, where is will be diligently drilled until the exigencies of the service require its removal to the immediate scene of action. It is made up of as stalwart and fine a looking set of men as we have ever seen, all "chock full" of fight, and eager to get "near the flashing of the guns." It is underst
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of a Venerable lady. (search)
An Old. Veteran gone. --Capt. Wm. Hale died on the 26th ult., in this place, in his 66th year. A native of Virginia, he had resided in Huntsville for about forty- five years, sustaining ever the character of an honest, energetic man and a good citizen. He was a soldier tried and true in the war of 1812; served under Jackson in the Creek Indian war, and was in its battles; was at the taking of Pensacola; fought in the battle of New Orleans, and endured all the hardships of Coffee's brigade. An acceptable Mason and a pious Christian, his life exemplified the virtues and the faith of both. For years he suffered intense agony, yet his patient resignation continued until the end, which was in peace with the world and hope in his God. He was buried with military and masonic ceremonies, --Huntsvills (Ala) Adv.
The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], What old-fashioned Rifles can do. (search)
that long range of cotton bales — a new material for breastworks --with the crowd of human beings behind, their heads only visible above the lines of defence. We could distinctly see their long rifles lying over the bales, and the battery of Gen. Coffee directly in front, with its great mouth gaping towards us, and the position of Gen. Jackson, with his staff around him.--But what attracted our attention most, was the figure of a tall man standing on the breast-works, dressed in linsey-woolsehoulder. This time we did not smile, but cast short glances at each other, to see which of us must die, and when the rifle again flashed another of us dropped to the earth. There was something awful in thus marching on to certain death. Gen. Coffee's battery and thousands of musket balls played upon our ranks. We cared not for them — there was a chance of escaping unscathed. Most of us had walked upon batteries a hundred times more destructive, without quelling; but to know that every
The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
From Missouri. Springfield, Mo., July 10. --On the 6th inst., Gen. Sweeney, with his column of Flying Artillery, was advancing on Vernon. Large numbers of mounted Missourians were congregating on the West Plains, and Generals Forsyth and Sweeney have sent a force to prevent their joining the forces under Gov. Jackson. Col. Coffee has been taken prisoner. Col. Wolfe has had an encounter with the Missourians, and has sent for assistance. He lost 30 killed and wounded. The loss on the Missouri side is not known here. Gen. Lyon was at Leesville, and advancing towards Clinton. Quincy, Ill., July 10. --The Missouri State cavalry have made a decided impression at Monroe Station, Mo. They routed the Federalists, burnt the station-house, six coaches, eighteen cars, and tore up the railway track on each side of the town. A messenger who was dispatched here for assistance reports that Col. Smith and fifty Federals have been taken prisoners.
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sketch of the life of Ben McCullough. (search)
Sketch of the life of Ben McCullough. The following sketch of the life of Gen. Ben McCullough, who participated in the battle of Davis' Creek, in Missouri, will be read with interest: Gen. McCullough was born in Rutherford county, Tenn, in 1814 His father, Alexander McCullough, was aid de-camp to Gen. Coffee, and fought under Gen. Jackson at the battles of Tallageda, Tallahassee and Horseshoe, during the Creek war. His father emigrated to Georgia while Ben was very young, and Ben was kept at school in Tennessee until he was 14 years old. After this Ben was kept hunting until he was near twenty-one. At that time the bears were so bad in Tennessee that the settlers could not raise their hogs. Hunting bears in the cane required much caution, and if a man's gun snapped he lost his breakfast. Young McCullough frequently killed as many as eighty bears during a season, and never less than twenty in the course of a winter.-- This life gave him a taste for wild adventure, and wh
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Shocking death. (search)
eleased on the condition that he will resign his office, leave the city, and remove to a free State. Republican accounts of Confederate movements--they lie about their loss at Springfield. St. Louis August 23. --Two released prisoners, arrived from Springfield, reports that on Thursday, after the battle, General McCulloch moved after General Siegel; but, learning that he was reinforced, he moved towards Jefferson City. Quite a number of the wounded on both sides have died. Colonel Coffee lost a leg. The official loss of the Federals is 223 killed, 72 wounded, and 291 missing. [An extraordinary result in which the killed exceeds the wounded nearly four to one !] These virtuous Northern people are improving in their great merit — that of lying !] From Ironton news is received that the Confederates have been reinforced by Hardee, with artillery. They will probably cut off Hecker's regiment at Marble creek. Cairo, Aug. 24.--Four thousand Missourians are reported t
The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Our correspondence. (search)
e standing. Its length was about a quarter of a mile. Early in the morning Gen. Coffee, with his brigade of horsemen, crossed the river three miles below, marched w to cross it and make their escape; but having left their canoes unguarded, Gen. Coffee had sent over, seized, and conveyed them all to the other side.--When they r Capt. Campbell, then a very young man, and a private in a company under General Coffee, said he had retired for a few minutes to cool his heated rifle in a small es into the river. In the effort to escape they would crawl out on these, when Coffee's men would pick them off, and they would drop like turtles into the water. Onned the shore, when he was immediately captured by a Cherokee and brought to Gen. Coffee. He tried to get information from him as to whether other Indians were stationed in the rear of Coffee's command. A tomahawk was raised in a threatening manner to make him communicate, when the fellow, instead of shrinking or cowering, defi
The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Our fallen leaders in Arkansas. (search)
Our fallen leaders in Arkansas. [from the New Orleans Picayune.] Ben. McCulloch, whose loss on the field of battle will be mourned by his countrymen, was a son of Alexander McCulloch, who was a Lieutenant and Aid to General Coffee, of Tennessee, in the battles of Talledeged and Horse Shoe Bend, and who resigned his commission in March, 1814. Ben was born in Rutherford county, Tennessee, in 1814. He was a Captain of the Texas Rangers in the Mexican war, and was distinguished for courage and conduct in the battle of Monterey. On the 11th of July, 1816, he was appointed quartermaster, with the rank of Major. He was also distinguished in the battle of Buena Vista, and as the commander of a spy company, before that battle, for a most daring and successful reconnaissance. He resigned his appointment in 1847. At his death he was a Brigadier General, commanding a division, known as McCulloch's division, and Chiefly composed of Arkansas and Texas troops. The 3d Louisiana, Col.
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
of the exploit, which comes to us in the Northern journals under date of Louisville, May 11: One hundred and fifty of Morgan's cavalry at noon to-day captured forty-eight freight and four passenger cars and two locomotives at Cave City, Ky. Morgan supposed the train would contain 248 cavalry prisoners, bound northward. The operator at Cave City, however, gave notice of these facts to Bowling Green, and stopped the upward train. Among the captured Unionists were Majors Helvetii and Coffee, both of Welford's cavalry, and one other Union officer and three or four soldiers. The rebels burned all the above cars, except two, and the locomotive, which brought the passengers back to Louisville. Scott's Louisiana Cavalry. We have published several notices of the gallant band under the command of Scott, a partisan leader, who bids fair to equal Morgan in the boldness of his movements. The following account, written by the Corinth correspondent of the Mobile Register, is
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