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The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further Northern News. (search)
patch from Louisville, dated the 28th. says: Some alarm ensued this afternoon from artillery practice in our suburbs, which subsided on learning the cause of the firing. The military officers of the rebel Confederacy rigidly enforced the conscription all around Lexington and other points occupied by the rebels. On Friday, about 500 rebel wagons were seen on the road from Danville to Lexington, supposed to be empty, and going in that direction for supplies. The pontoon bridge connecting Louisville and Jeffersonville was completed yesterday. A skirmish occurred at Middletown to-day between a federal cavalry regiment and some rebel troops. One rebel was killed and the balance routed. A dash of Confederate cavalry was made into the town of Augusta, Ky., on the 27th, about 40 miles from Cincinnati, and the Federals, under Col. Rudford, cleared out. The gunboats on the Ohio river could effect nothing in defending the place. The Federals escaped into Ohio.
The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], The latest News from the North. (search)
Ireland. It is the natural effect of the operations of tyranny. Mr. McMasters made a few remarks at the close, and the audience separated quietly. At the next meeting Richard O'Gorman will speak. Affairs in the West--the attack on Augusta, Ky. A letter to the Cincinnati Gazette from Augusta, Ky., dated the 28th, gives further particulars of the capture of that town by the Confederates. It says: This place was attacked by six hundred and forty mounted rebels, with two canAugusta, Ky., dated the 28th, gives further particulars of the capture of that town by the Confederates. It says: This place was attacked by six hundred and forty mounted rebels, with two cannon, under the command of a brother of the guerrilla John Morgan. The Union forces, under Col. Bradford, numbering one hundred and twenty men, took refuge in houses and fired from windows, killing and wounding ninety of the rebels, Among the killed were three Captains, one of them a younger brother of John Morgan. Among the mortally wounded was Lieutenant-Colonel Prentice, a son of George D. Prentice, editor and proprietor of the Louisville Journal. The rebels were so exasperated at their
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
uary on his son. George D. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, publishes in that paper the following obituary of his eldest son, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Confederate service, who was killed in the late successful attack upon the town of Augusta, Ky.: Obituary.--William Courtland Prentice died on Monday last, at Augusta, Ky., of wounds received in the conflict at that place on the preceding Saturday. He perished in the cause of the rebellion. It is not in the columns of a newspAugusta, Ky., of wounds received in the conflict at that place on the preceding Saturday. He perished in the cause of the rebellion. It is not in the columns of a newspaper — it is only in the family circle or in the hush of solitude — that the emotions of a parent over such an event should have utterance. The tears of weeping eyes and the fast trickling drops of bleeding hearts are not for the public gaze. The deep agonies should be content to fold their sombre wings in the soul. Consolation could not come from the world's sympathy; it can be looked for only from God and his angel time. Nay, there are griefs that time itself has no power to allay or sooth
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