hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 25, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 5 results in 3 document sections:

Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 3: military operations in Missouri and Kentucky. (search)
the invaders — the latter, who was in delicate health, remaining in Louisville to forward re-enforcements. Fortunately, Buckner had been delayed, near Bowling Green, by the patriotic act of a young man of that place, who went quietly up the road and displaced a rail, by which the engine of the invaders' train was thrown from the track. But for this, Buckner might have reached Louisville before Anderson could have put any forces in motion. As it was, he penetrated the county as far as Elizabeth-town, forty miles from that city, when he heard of the approaching troops. He thought proper to fall back to Bowling Green, where he established an intrenched camp, and issued a proclamation Sept. 18, 1861. to his fellow-citizens of Kentucky, That proclamation abused the National Government and the loyal Legislature of Kentucky. He declared in it that Confederate troops occupied a defensive position in that State, on the invitation of the people of Kentucky; that he returned to his nat
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 6 (search)
, about 5 feet 10 inches in height, sandy complexion, shot in the head; had $21 in his pocket-book, and a white silk badge, marked Parker Guard, died Monday night. Lieut. Devers, of Ellsworth Zouaves, wounded in the arm. He laid down to rest, and in the morning, when I went to bandage his arm, I found him dead. Also, a man from Rockland, Me., named Fletcher. On Tuesday, Allen, of Company C, Seventy-first, died. He was wounded in the abdomen. Butler, of Company C, Seventy-first, Elizabeth-town, N. J., also died; wounded in legs. Doctors were not there to amputate. George Sayne and John P. Morrissey, both of the Seventy-first, also died Wednesday morning, within one hour of each other, lying side by side. Mead, of Massachusetts, a wealthy shoe-manufacturer, died while having his thigh amputated. Several others died, whose names I could not learn, numbering in all 32. On Tuesday evening, six of the doctors came back on parole — Drs. Peugnet, Swift, Winston, De Graw, Buxton,
The Daily Dispatch: September 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted. (search)
From Kentucky. a distinguished Tennesseeans opinion — operations of the Confederates. Mobile, Sept. 24. --The Mobile Tribune publishes a letter from a Tennessean Congressman, dated Murfreesboro', Sept. 20th, stating that no matter what the Legislature or the prominent politicians of Kentucky may say and do, we have reliable information that a large majority of the bone and sinew and fighting material of the State are heart and soul with the South. A column of Tennessee troops have possession of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, within 40 miles of Louisville. They have also taken possession of all rolling stock, including locomotives. The railroad bridge across Salt river, near Elizabeth town, has been burned. These troops are posted at Muldraugh's Hill, where Kentuckians are rallying to unite with them in large numbers.