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The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Kentucky. (search)
From Kentucky. Combination of Generals Buckner's, Polk's, and Zollicoffer's forces — the recent skirmish at Bacon Creek — Admirable condition of the Confederate troops, etc. The following letter from Lebanon, Ky., to the Louisville Journal, will be interesting as giving our readers an insight into matters and tce full confidence in the reports which the reveller brings relative to the situation and motions of the rebel army. He says that the divisions under Buckner, Polk, and Zellicoffer are combining, and that when the commands are finally joined, the grand army under Polk will embrace from thirty to forty thousand men, who are wePolk will embrace from thirty to forty thousand men, who are well armed and equipped. It is the policy of the rebels to draw out Gen. Rousseau's forces as far as possible on the line of the Louisville and Nashville road, and then, with their superior force, to flank Gen. Rousseau, cut off his retreat, and then, with the Federal forces completely in their power, to make an easy conquest of Lo