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The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs in the West. (search)
Affairs in the West. the Lincoln raid at Big Creek Gap — Tennessee river--Federal outrages, &c. we get the following intelligence from the latest Tennessee papers received: The affair at Big Creek Gap The Knoxville Register, of the 18th instant, says: The account of the capture of a large number of our cavalry by a Lincolnite force at Big Creek Gap. which appeared in our paper on Sunday last, has been shorn of its startling proportions by later and more authentic information. It turns out that the first reports brought here by the fugitive cavalrymen from Jacksboro' were either greatly exaggerated or confused. The Confederate loss has dwindled down from the capture of four cavalry companies to eight men and a few horses. We give below the statement of Lieutenant Brittain, of Captain Brown's company, an intelligent and reliable officer, who arrived in this city on yesterday morning: I see a statement in your paper of the 16th, concerning the skirmi
The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Telegraphic dispatches. (search)
tion. The river is falling slowly at the Island. Memphis, March 21. --A special dispatch to the city papers states that Sergeant Kottle, of the McCulloch Brigade, having escaped from the Yankees, reached Fort Smith on the 19th. He reports that the enemy's loss, in the battle at Pea Ridge, was two thousand killed and wounded. They captured three hundred prisoners, many of whom are citizens. The Yankees are preparing for another attack. General Seigel was wounded in the arm slightly. Two Texas regiments, which were sent to bury our dead under a flag of truce, were fired on by the enemy. Three thousand Yankees are on route to reinforce Gen. Curtis. Memphis, March 21. --Information received here from Corinth, Mississippi, states that the Yankees are retreating to Tennessee river. Memphis, March 21. --A steamer from up the river brings intelligence that the Yankees are slowly moving down the west bank of the Mississippi.
The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War must be ended. (search)
ate securities, and the possessors of paper money, who will look around in vain for some sources whence their claims may be met, and will awake to the reality that their property is but a delusion and a dream? This is all that those who wait will ever see. The very joy and exultation which the "successes" of the last few weeks have caused in the North, show hew little the promoters of this war really expect that absolute conquest which they promise. The capture of an earth-work on the Tennessee river, over if it be followed by the capture of the stronger neighboring fort upon the river Constantine, is only one of the first of a long series of military preparations for a campaign in Kentucky and Tennessee. If the invaders should obtain this success, its use will only be to enable them to feed the army which has advanced through Kentucky, and to keep it in working order for operating on a theatre five hundred miles distant from the opposing armies on the Potomac. A year of succe