Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-15
THE CAMPAIGN IN KENrrCkY.
SkIImish near ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sc DC.
Currsn e-The Barge Bridge BrOAGn.
Correspondence OF the Memphis Appeal.

Correspondence OF the memphis Appeal.
COLUMBUS KY. Oct IL, lS6l-Afsirs st this pofn
are still quiet everything within the lines moving
of with the mOnotony of garrison in times o.
profound peace. We're We not volunteer army
who are supposed TO know something of the purpo
ses for which they are enlisted, and feel natura
interest in the cause they have espoused, ever
inquiry would be silent where there is so little &c
crafty curiosity. The marching and eountermsrch-
ing of regiments and the arrival and departure Of
troops, only excite remarks as to their appearance
and the efficiency Of their officers as exhibited IL
their drill, thoroughly are soldiers reduced &c
machines.
Under this state of things, an order directed TO
Lieut.. Armstrong-in the absence of Captain Bal.
lentine and during the illness of First Lieut.. Max
well, in command of the Shelby Light Dragons
from Lieut.. Col. Logwood, second battalion Ten
nessee Cavalry, 10 be ready on the morning of the
9th to march at daylight with forty men and
two days rRtjous, scarcely led to inquiry as
to the probable destination of the expedition -
The order was received about four o'clock
on tie Sth, and the following morning
found forty of the Shelby Light Dragons Lieuten-
ant Armstrong In command, and forty of the Mem
phis Light Dragons, Capt Taylor commanding, in
their saddles ready to receive marching orders
The expedition was commanded by Lieut. Col. Log
wood, and the party caught the fret sight of the
sun on the morning of the ninth from the heights
above Columbus, beyong which lay the direction of
their route. A man well acquainted with the
country lying between here and PSducah acted as
guide, and after passing beyond Blandville led the
expedition forward principally By uufrequeI tsl
paths and by-roads toward the point of their desu-
nation, which proved to be the vicinity of Padueah,
q distance of about forty~dVe miles from Golum-
bus though it had been rumored in camp during
the day that the party had been called out to op-
crate against force said 10 be landed at the mouth
of Mayfeld creek from the gun boats reported
ID be s4bed by our batteries on the TITS report
together ith the of an action in which Lieut.
Armstrong vas Fspsrted killed, and which may
have reached you were 81 lo4r2s without founda-
ton.
Nothing of interest occurred until tie party got
within about two and half miles of Paducah, with
the exception of the king of young man prisonel
about eighteen miles this siSs, who had made him
self somewhat notorious in that neigh borhood as
Lincoln partiglD and who was tied to his horse and
taken forward by the party as the frat fruits Of the
expedition. He was PERSISTENT friend OF the Fede-
raj cause, ev under what seemed t9 ba almost
insurmountable difficulties and to all the jeers Of
his captors he consoed himself with assuring them
that he yet had "a chance for his white alley"
Arrived within about two and halt miles Of
PadaosL, the cammand separated, the party dis
mounting, and ieFtion making a circuit Of three>
quarters of mi,e and FeS5i..4g the main road at
point between the picket PadusSA, tiIEs eating
of their retreat in that direction. No sooner
lad this party accomplished their purpose o. inter
ceptng their retreat than rapid firing in their
evidenced the fact that the ga hsa been sprung
from the cover, and the detachment ~ ADVANCE I'M
Eedietely fell back TO the scene Of the firing This
was about tgo O'Clock on the morning of the 10th.
The party who made the attack upon the pickets
had advanced by tie Ensp road tG the picket stand
and they seem to have had no sentries oys at the
tiE4e or if so they we're asleep. as our Igrty tOoF
item eedrsly BY surprise killing three Of the enemy
at the first voilky 3ntI taking one prisoner a e."
minutes afterwards one OF tie pickets camp up,
who had been off after water, snd IN The Srestest
CONSERVATION informed the assalant THAT they had
been ''iCilling our pIckets" when he was informed
that unless he surrendered he would share the same
fate. Discretion in this Instance was certainly the
better part Of valer and thought ice Fe9ersllst
as he, like philoaophc Dutehman, as be was. re-
signed himself to the necessities of his position, ms
King two of the pickets taken prisoners
At6ut thig tyne an incident occurred which cast
a gloom over the whole party, and shaded the en-
terprise with the somber hucs Of the grave. Of !
course it is meyer expected that an affair Of tSg
nature should be carried to a successful termiha |
ton without casualty on our side, but the painful
nature Of this asair was doubled by the fact that
he death Of eomrade ies at oUr own doors. Mr.. /
John Gala CHER member of the Shelby Light Ora /
yoons, whose family reside in Iowa, but yfhc has
been for several years resident Of Msnphis, was
IF the party who proceeded by the main road 10