Posted on 11/27/2021 6:17:49 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Nov. 26.
A LIVELY SKIRMISH WITH THE REBELS.
This morning Capt. ROWLAND, while scouting near HUNTER'S mills with two companies of FRIEDMAN'S Cavalry, sent forward Lieut. ANDREWS with a squad to reconnoitre, who soon returned reporting that a large force of rebel infantry was in ambush awaiting our troops. Our men then retired. About 2 o'clock this afternoon Capt. RELL, with a company of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, while reconnoitering near the same place, was attacked by a great number of the enemy hidden in the woods, on Loth sides of the road, and five volleys were interchanged, when our troops fell back. Gen. FITZ JOHN POKTER, being informed of the affair, sent out the Ninth Massachusetts, Fourth Michigan, two companies Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, ad GRIFFIN's Battery, as reinforcements, and ordered WHEEDER's Rhode Island Battery and the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry to be ready to move. On the arrival of our forces the enemy retreated, but tried to intercept them when returning, by a side road. Fire was opened by both parties, and the rebel leader was shot.
A dozen of our men fell from their horses -- whether they were wounded or not is unknown -- and were left behind. Lieut. FORD, of the Pennsylvania Cavalry, and forty-five men, are missing, but many will probably find their way to camp. Sergeant PARKER was badly injured. The enemy were uniformed like our troops. Several horses of both parties were killed, and a horse of the rebel commander captured.
The capture of the two arch traitors, MASON and SLIDELL, begins to tell on the high-toned secession society of Washington. Their haut ton begins to take in sail and drift painfully, as the wind blows northeast. The fashionable nabobs and bankers of the Capital
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The Great Rebellion: Highly Important News from Fort Pickens – 2-3
Fort Pickens and Its Surroundings – 4
Fighting at Fort Pickens: Fire Opened by Col. Brown on the Navy-Yard and Barrancas – 5-6
Banquet to Capt. Wilkes: Honor to the Capturer of Mason and Slidell – 6
Editorial: The Attack on Fort Pickens– 6-7
Doomed Cities – 7
The Stevens Battery – 7
Editorial: Rebel Ambassadors With or Without Dispatches – 7
Important from Kentucky: Breckinridge Reported to be Advancing with a Body of Troops – 7
bkmk
Breckinridge (former VP and Senator) is up to no good.
“ IMPORTANT FROM KENTUCKY,
Breckinridge Reported to be Advancing with Body of Troops.
Louisville. “Tuesday. Nov. 26
A young man arrived at Camp Calhoun, Mc-
Lean County, Saturday last, and reported that Hon.
J. C. BRECKINRIDGE is between Russellville and Green-
ville, 16 miles from Greenville, with a reglment of
cavalry and one of infantry. He In ended crossing
Green River at Rochester, and also st Ashbyburgh.
Auother force wag to advance on Rumsey, opposite
Calhoun, and divert Gen. Crittendon until the other
two forces gol in his rear.
The same Informant say’s that the Russellville Con-
ment, but emissaries of a belligerent. faction,
Governor of Kentucky, and selected Bowling Green
as the State Capitol.
“ The Russellville Convention
The border states of Tennessee and Kentucky were, in today’s parlance, the key swing states that would determine the course of the war west of the Appalachians and Logan County Kentucky was situated in the middle of the border between these two border states. The Tennessee Legislature voted to join the Confederacy by a slim margin (overturning an initial vote to remain in the Union) only after Lincoln’s call for troops to retake Fort Sumter in June of 1861. The Commonwealth of Kentucky which had decided against secession in February 1861 used this demand for troops to declare their neutrality.
In October of 1861, however, two coordinated incursions into neutral Kentucky were conducted by former Kentucky citizens who had joined the Confederate Army of Tennessee. The first incursion into Bowling Green led by General Leonidas Polk of Tennessee was supported by Kentuckians like Simon Bolivar Buckner who had left home to fight for the South and it was welcomed by many of those who had remained behind. The second, led by General John Hunt Morgan had targeted the small crossroads town of Russellville in Logan County, which also had strong Confederate sympathies as well as good connecting roads from Nashville and Clarksville, Tennessee to Hopkinsville, Owensboro and Bowling Green Kentucky. An added bonus was it’s strategic location on the Louisville & Nashville railroad line.
With their sovereignty threatened by these incursions, loyal volunteer regiments like the Seventeenth and Twenty-fifth Kentucky Infantries began forming across the state in the fall of 1861, while many pro-secessionists fled to the newly established strongholds of Russellville and Bowling Green to join the Confederate Army. The prospect of remaining neutral was becoming less likely and the state whose official seal features a businessman and frontiersman clasping hands surrounded by the motto “United we stand, divided we fall” was about to become the most conflicted participant in the conflict.
Seizing upon this opportunity, a convention was called by Kentucky’s pro-secessionists at Russellville in November 1861 for the purpose of creating the Confederate State of Kentucky, with it’s capitol being established at Bowling Green. The constitution for this state was written and adopted at the Russellville Convention and on December 10, 1861 the Confederate State of Kentucky was admitted to the rebellious confederation and honored by the addition of the 13th and central star on the Confederate flag. Thus the Confederate government gained the rights of conscripting men and commandeering private property in Kentucky to support their fight for a state’s right to secede from the Union.”
https://17thky.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-russellville-convention.html?m=1
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