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IMPORTANT NEWS: Particulars of the Great Battle in Missouri; Only 5,500 National Troops Engaged; The Rebel Loss Estimated at 2,000 Killed and Wounded (8/15/1861)
New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 8/15/1861

Posted on 08/15/2021 6:57:43 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Aug. 14.

Orders have been issued for the raising and equipment of two additional regiments in New-Mexico, either of infantry or cavalry, as may be most readily, obtained.

A gentleman, direct from San Antonio via New-Orleans, reached Washington to-day. He came to New-Orleans overland by way of Houston, Brashear City, on Berwick's Bay, and thence up the Mississippi. There is no difficulty for a Southerner on the confines of the rebel States. If he obtains a pass at Memphis, he comes through unmolested, otherwise his baggage and correspondence are searched at Clarksville, Tenn. This gentleman represents the corn, grass, wheat and cotton crops of Texas as being very excellent - better than for many previous years. He also represents the sugar Crop of Louisiana as very promising. He says that nowhere, from San Antonio to the eastern borders of the rebel States, is there the least business doing - no sales, and no money in circulation. He says, also, that there is a large Union sentiment in Texas and Louisiana, and that the feeling is gaining strength.

Col. FARNHAM, of the Zouaves, died at the Infirmary in this city this evening, at about 8 o'clock.

TROUBLE IN THE SEVENTY-NINTH.

The Seventy-ninth Regiment was, put under arrest this afternoon. A week since, it is said, an order was read to the regiment to proceed to New-York soon, to remain at Bedloe's Island for two months to recruit. The order was recently countermanded. The assignment of the regiment to the Sickles Brigade was another cause of dissatisfaction. Some of the regiment were opposed to their officers, and on Tuesday the men were paid off, and the drunkenness consequent upon this resulted in the open mutiny of the more violent.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar
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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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1 posted on 08/15/2021 6:57:43 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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2 posted on 08/15/2021 6:58:54 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...

Important News – 2-3
Important from Cairo – 3
The Battle in Missouri – 3
Mr. Russell’s Letters: Description of the Camps at Washington-The Opening of Congress – 3-6
Editorial: The Great Battle in Missouri – 6-7
Editorial: Important Movements in St. Louis – 7
Resignations of Officers – 7
Editorial: The Trials of Our Soldiers – 7-8
Iowa Pluck and Patriotism – 8
England and the United States – 8
The War in Western Virginia: A Severe Skirmish Near Grafton – 8
An Arrest in Boston – 8
The Philadelphia City Troop Welcomed Home – 8
Privateering: The Case of the George G. Baker-Names of the Prize Crew – 8
Foreign Officers (Letter to the Editor) – 8
How to Get Food to Troops (Letter to the Editor) – 8
The Rebels Marching on Pilot Knob – 8


3 posted on 08/15/2021 7:00:13 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Bump


4 posted on 08/15/2021 7:01:13 AM PDT by sauropod (Time is like quicksilver, smearing the years... - Bill Nelson)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

This is the Battle of Wilson’s Creek.


5 posted on 08/15/2021 7:07:47 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Be kind to each other, unless the other guy is a dumbass.)
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Northern Opposition To Mr. Lincoln’s War by D. Jonathan White


6 posted on 08/15/2021 7:35:21 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Probably was fake news back then too.


7 posted on 08/15/2021 7:37:26 AM PDT by cp124 (Focus on treatment and not an experimental vaccine/flu shot.)
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It was definitely fake news. Confederate command in the West was not great, but the CW would have been over in a few weeks if the NYT reports were accurate. They remind me of CBS broadcasting nightly “Body Counts” during the Vietnam War. (”3,057 Viet Cong killed, and 2 Americans lightly wounded”. As a child, I remember wondering how the whole country wasn’t depopulated.)


8 posted on 08/15/2021 8:31:38 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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BrexitBen: "Northern Opposition To Mr. Lincoln’s War by D. Jonathan White"

Southern Unionists



9 posted on 08/15/2021 3:03:09 PM PDT by BroJoeK (looking for a new tag line...)
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cp124: "Probably was fake news back then too."

Naw, just the fog of war.
"Yesterday" the Times reported a Union victory at Wilson's Creek, in southwest Missouri.
"Today" they say it was a draw.

Historians say it was a Confederate victory, even though losses on both sides were roughly the same.
Confederates were too disorganized to capitalize on their victory and failed to pursue fleeing Union troops.

So far the Union has not won a single battle in a Confederate state, but did win 13 engagements in four Union states or territories.
Confederate won 7 engagements in two Confederate states plus 8 in the Union, and roughly 60% of Confederate losses so far have been in Union states.

It will be some time in 1862 before Confederate losses within the Confederacy are greater than their losses from invading the United States.

10 posted on 08/15/2021 3:45:12 PM PDT by BroJoeK (looking for a new tag line...)
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