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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 199 (search)
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186.-surrender of Clarksville, Tenn.
Colonel Rodney Mason's defence.
camp Chase, Tuesday, August 25, 1862. To the Editor of the Ohio State Journal :
I have found the papers filled with accusations against me, touching the surrender of Clarksville, and telegrams grossly misrepresenting the facts in the case.
I have only to state my relations to that event, and leave to a candid and not ungenerous people the verdict upon me.
On the twelfth of June, Gen. Halleck published an can look death most calmly in the face.
If then, responsible for my own life only, I falter, let them indeed call me a coward. R. Mason.
Statement of company officers.
The undersigned, commissioned officers of the line, who were at Clarksville, Tenn., on duty at the time of the surrender, have read with deep regret a telegraphic despatch, purporting to come from Russellville, and comments thereon, giving a basely false report of the action.
To the ends of obtaining simple justice, we s
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 217 (search)
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204.-expedition to Clarksville, Tenn.
Cincinnati Commercial account.
since the surrender of Clarksville to Woodward and his guerrilla band, and his repulse at this post, the recapture of that proud, aristocratical, secesh town, has been an object most earnestly desired by the officers and men of what remains of the Seventy-first regiment O. V.I. Colonel W. W. Lowe, commanding the posts of Forts Henry and Hindman, entered fully into this feeling.
He, therefore, after a good deal of labor and some unavoidable delay, concentrated a force at this post which was regarded sufficiently strong to march into and recapture Clarksville.
The force consisted.
of parts of the Eleventh Illinois, Col. Ransom; Thirteenth Wisconsin, Lieut.-Col. Chapman; Seventy-first Ohio, Major Hart, and part of the Fifth Iowa cavalry, one section of Flood's battery, and one section of Starbuck's battery, numbering in all about one thousand and thirty men. With this force, under command of Colonel Lowe