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The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Trivial cases. (search)
ion is strong that he did so, for all the preliminaries, and even the form of expression, had been agreed upon between him and his commissioners. Whether, however, Gen. Hunter, now in the discharge of the duties of this department, has ratified the compact, in the terms proposed, is not known. The battle in Kentucky. The Federals still claim a victory in Kentucky, as will appear from the following.--It seems that they pursue the plan of whenever they tell a lie, (and it is very seldom they tell the truth) to stick to it: The War Department has a dispatch from Gen. Nelson's army, announcing that the whole number of prisoners that have fallen into our hands as the result of his recent brilliant victory near Prestonsburg, Ky., is 2,015, rather than 1,000, as stated immediately on the close of the action. Among them are the disunion Generals Williams (commanding) and Howe. The enemy's killed, whose bodies have been actually seen by our troops, number quite four hundred.