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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Missouri battle--Arkansas troops. (search)
not venture to give correctly. It is impossible that McCulloch, notwithstanding the enemy's reports, could have had under his command over six thousand men, unless he had been reinforced by a regiment of cavalry which he expected from Texas. What Price's addition was I cannot learn. Arkansas, with a voting population of only sixty thousand, has now, besides independent companies, twenty-seven regiments in the field. eleven thousand of which force only are properly armed. Pocahontas, Arkansas, near the terminus of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain R. R., in the line of defence of Hardee's column, having been deemed a point of danger from invasion by the Hessians of St. Louis, a large proportion of the Arkansas forces had marched thither, and by the enemy's account did not arrive at Springfield in time to share the dangers and horrors of the battle. It is stated in the words of the report received here through the North that "The Confederates, in overwhelming force charged T
The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Handsome present. (search)
der Col. Hunter, was defeated by the Kansas ruffians, under Lane and Montgomery, who are burning towns, and marching down the Arkansas frontier. McCulloch has only 3,500 men. He proclaims that he needs three regiments of infantry immediately for twelve months service and calls urgently for a general rally for the defence of the State. Gen. Harder's command. The Memphis Appeal, of Saturday, says: We learn that a portion of Gen. Hardee's command, heretofore stationed above Pocahontas, Ark., has been moved over to Point Pleasant, Missouri, a place twelve miles below New Madrid, on the west bank of the Mississippi river. The balance of his forces, with the General himself, were to have arrived at the same point yesterday, his purpose, as is understood, being to co-operate with General Johnston's army in Kentucky. The recent series of brilliant successes that have attended our arms in Missouri, resulting in driving the enemy up towards St. Louis, is no doubt the cause
The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Vendetta. (search)
The Vendetta. --A Fearful Tragedy.--The Memphis Avalanche, of Monday, contains the following: A fearful tragedy occurred in the city Saturday evening, the sequel of a similar act that transpired at Pocahontas, Ark., some two or three months since. At that place, the wife of a pilot named Augustus Castilano had a difficulty with a sporting man named Samuel Tate, in regard to a pet bear belonging to the latter, when Tate informed her that if she had a male friend who would espouse her quarrel, he would meet him. On hearing this, Castilano, on the return to Pocahontas of the Kanawha Valley, procured a gun, and meeting Tate, shot and killed him, Castilano came to Memphis on the boat that brought the intelligence from Jacksonport, and was never arrested. Hugh Tate, a brother to the man killed, since the occurrence has been hunting Castilano. He traced him to New Orleans, back to Jacksonport, from thence to Springfield, and then back to Memphis, where he arrived on the ste
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
The Eufaula (Ala.) Spirit of the South says it is rumored that some persons in Barbour county have been engaged in shipping cotton from Eufaula to Columbus and thence to Apalachicola, where it is clandestinely conveyed to the enemy's vessels, to be carried north. Gen. Borland, in command at Pocahontas, Ark; has embargoed White river, to prevent spectators from monopolizing and carrying off supplies. The Tableaux at the Mobile theatre last Friday night yielded about $1000, clear, to the soldiers' cause. Charleston was fired in several places Sunday evening last.--Several wooden buildings, at that small value were destroyed.
The Daily Dispatch: may 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 23 (search)
engers from Pittsburg report that on Thursday over thirty deserters from the rebel army entered our camps and begged to be enrolled among our troops. They all corroborated the statement received the day before, relating to the evacuation by the rebels of their present position, and asserted that Beauregard had withdrawn a considerable portion of his forces for the defence of Memphis. The Memphis Avalanche, of the 23d, says that on the 11th eighty Federal cavalry took possession of Pocahontas, Ark. There are 10,000 Federal troops at Doniphan, Mo., engaged in building flatboats on Current river, with which to descend Black and White rivers. Martial law has been declared at Vicksburg and five miles around. A large body of Texans are in Memphis en routs for Corinth. Mr. De Bow, the solicitor for the Confederate cotton loans, wants 20,000 bales for a specific purpose in exchange for 8 per cent. Confederate bonds. A mutiny has broken out in Nashville, in consequence
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], The late raid (search)
ez. Gen. Grant and staff were at Memphis. Gen. Ewing returned to Kansas city on Monday from the pursuit of Quantrell's guerillas. He is estimated to have had three hundred men at Lawrence.--They disbanded at the head of Grand river, scattering in every direction.--The pursuing forces divided accordingly, and continued skirmishing was going on. About seventy of the guerillas had been killed so far as heard from. Lane is organizing a force, and says he will go into Missouri early in September. The chiefs of the Delaware, Sacs, and Fox tribes have offered their services to Lane. Over one hundred rebel sympathizers have been killed in Cass county, Missouri, and their houses burnt. A cavalry force, under Fitzhugh Lee, crossed the Rappahannock on Monday, but were quickly routed by one of our brigades. A successful cavalry raid has been made into Pocahontas, Arkansas. One hundred prisoners, including the rebel General Jeff. Thompson and all his Staff, were captured.
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