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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
excited state of feeling, and "death to the guerillas" is the motto. Seven guerillas were hung in one day by a party of citizens, who joined together for a fox chase. Hudson, Mo., Aug. 7.--Colonel McNeill's forces came up with parties of guerrillas a few miles northeast of Kirksville, in Adair county, yesterday morning, and followed them skirmishing into the town, where a general fight ensued, in which the rebels lost 150 killed, forty wagons of supplies, and ten wagon loads of arms. Porter's forces are scattered. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 8.--General Merrill, during active operations against guerrillas in the northeast, will call able bodied loyal men to his assistance, and subsist his command off the Secessionists. The jurisdiction of the Provost Marshal General of this State has been extended over Illinois and Iowa. Recruiting in this city is progressing very satisfactorily, and there is but little doubt that the eight regiments called for under the President's fir
The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], The battle of Southwest Mountain. (search)
llas, attacked a hundred Federal Yankees near Friar's Point yesterday, killing seventeen and capturing six. Our loss was one killed. Capt. Maxwell was wounded. Alexandria Mo., five miles from Keokuk, was taken by our guerrillas on the 3d inst. A letter from Cameron to the Missouri Republican says, that Northern Missouri is literally full of organized bands of rebels, and citizens are flocking to these bands by hundreds daily, and will soon have the whole country in their hands. He says all is dark and obscure, and every move of the Federal Government makes matters still worse. Without a military Government, he adds, we will be completely overruled by the rebels in two months. Porter has raised over 2,600 men, and they are hourly increasing as he moves from place to place. The London Times anticipates a general uprising in the border States since McClellan's defeat. It says the Yankees are daily receiving the conviction that the Confederates can never be subjugated.