Posted on 01/29/2024 5:42:57 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
CINCINNATI, Thursday, Jan. 28.
A special dispatch from Chattanooga to the Commercial says JOHNSTON'S army has fallen back from Dalton.
Col. BURKE, of the Tenth Ohio Regiment, with a tag of truce went out forty-five miles, and could find no enemy.
Rebel advance pickets are at Kingston, forty miles south of Dalton, probably to cover the retreat.
CHEATHAM's Division went to Kingston on Wednesday.
Several unimportant cavalry raids have been made to cover this retreat.
A special dispatch to the Gazette, from Nashville, says, persons who left Knoxville on Saturday, report skirmishing between LONGSTREET's Cavalry and ours. No doubt is felt but that Knoxville can be held.
Gov. JOHNSON has issued a proclamation for the election of county officers in the counties under the Union power. Disloyal persons are not permitted to vote, and a very rigid oath is prescribed.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Jan. 28.
The following dispatch has been received at the headquarters of the army here:
CHATTANOOGA, Friday, Jan. 27.
To Maj.-Gen. Halleck, General-in-Chief:
Col. BOONE, with a force of 450 men of the Twenty-eighth Kentucky Mounted Infantry and the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, attacked the camp of Home Guards, Col. CULBERTON commanding, and routed them, destroying their camp, a considerable number of arms and other property, and retired to their camp without any casualties in his force.
JOHNSTON's Brigade of RODDY's command crossed the Tennessee River at Bainbridge, three miles, and Newport Ferry, six miles below Florence, intending to make a junction with a brigade of infantry, who were expected to cross the river at Lamb's and Brown's Ferries, and thence to proceed to Alton's, to capture our forces there. We engaged them, killing fifteen, wounding quite a number, and taking some of them prisoners. Among them are three commissioned officers. Our loss is ten wounded. GEORGE H. THOMAS,
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Important from Tennessee: Reported Retreat of the Rebel Army from Dalton – 2
Gen. Butler’s Department: A Brilliant Gunboat Expedition – 2
Department of the Gulf: A Memorial from Gen. Banks – 2
Kentucky: Morgan Threatening a Raid – 2
From the South: No Change at Charleston – 2
From St. Louis: Movements of Gen. Grant – 3
News from Washington: Special Dispatches to the N.Y. Times – 3
Editorial: Johnston’s Retreat – Movement of the Rebel Army – 3
Editorial: The Problem of Southern Redemption – How it is to be Solved – 3-4
Negroes Securing Homesteads – 4
Rebel Good Faith Illustrated – 4
Yeah but this was a long time ago.
Thank you, read each day with interest.
Should’ve picked our own cotton.
I grew up less than ten miles from Kingston just off the Kingston highway. Kingston is a tiny bump in the road (population 722) but up the hill behind Kingston, there is an old Confederate Cemetery.
this is on the second page, on the right, half way down
FROM MISSISSIPPI,Meriden, Saturday, Jan. 23
A fight has occurred at Booma, Warren County, between negroes and whites. The negroes killed a number of Yankees, when reinforcements arrived, who charged on the negroes, took their artillery and opened on them with grape and canister. Several hundred were killed.
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