The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-07-25
WAR NEW 8.

WAR NEWS.
TAursdoy Juiy l7M.-Water has been
let into the canal at Vicksburg, but the
current of the river has not been diverted
by It. 1t is three feet deep.
The guerrillas near Memphis are be.
coming very bold. burning cotton almost
in sight Of the city. Pretending to be
cotton buyers, they find where it is stored 1,
and then come in force and burn il.
Seven scouts of the Ilth Illinois cavalry
were attacked near Herna audo on Friday.
Two were wounded and captured the
balance escaped.
The rebels who took Mur(reesboro' have
fallen back towards McNinuvilie, Warren
county, thirty five miles eastward. Our
loss at Murlreesboro' was thirty three
killed and one hundred wounded. Citizens
are actively en!isling in the home guard,
and reinforcements are arriving at Nash
vile. An attack on the city is not appre.
hcnded.
Gen. Haleck was with his army near
Corinth last Thursday. The troops were
in good condition, ready for service. Gen.
eral Bragg has forty thousand rebel troops
at Tupelo, and some thirty i've thousand
more at Holly Springs and other places
Their movements are said to indicate
offensive operations.
| Official information has reached Corinth
that General Curtis army arrived on the
10th instant at Clarendon, on the White
river, in Monroe county, Arkansas. They
had had skrmishes almost every day, in
which the rebels were worsted. On the
7th the advance Of General Steele's divis
ion, under Colonel Harvey, OF Illinois, at.
tackled six thousand of the rebels at Cock
river, near Round Hill and utterly routed
them. Most of them fed TO Little Rock
Duvaps Bluff was evacuated by them
Official information has been received at
ST. Louis that General Curtis army OF
fourteen thousand has reached Helena,
Phillips county, Arkansas, on the Missis-
sippi, eighty miles below Memphis.
Friday July l8M.--General Curtis ar.
my, Which arrived at Helena, Arkansas,
on the Mississippi river, on the lth in
slant. is reported TO be in good condition.
Notwithstanding long forced marches and
short rations. On The 7th, the advance,
consisting of the first Indiana cavalry, the
eleventh Wisconsin and The thirty third
Illinois regiments, utterly routed two reg.
iments of Texan cavalry and large force
of infantry, who attacked them on their
march. Our loss was eight killed. Our
troops buried one hundred and ten dead
rebels on the field.
A specia! dispatch from Memphis to the
Chicago Tribune says: "Two hundred
of Colonel Fitoh's command had an en-
gagement with the rebels, numbering lour
thousand, on the morning of the 9Th
The Federal loss was twenty-five killed
and wounded, and that Of the rebels eighty.
four killed, wounded and missing.
"Another engagement took place or
the night OF the 7th, in which Colonel Fitcl
captured all the enemy's camp equipage
and prisoners. Both fights are said tc
have taken place within ten miles Of Du
valps Bluff. where large forco Of rebel;
are said TO be Stationed"
At noon last Tuesday Morgan's band
were at Midway, Kentucky, twenty mile,
, southeast OF Frankfort. They cut th,
t telegraph wire and tore up the Lexington
,, railroad. They left for Georgetown. sew
eEteen miles east of Frankfort on Tues
/, day night. Morgan intends, he says, t
visit Lexington and Frankfort before h'
, gets through with his job. Al the lates
. accounts. our troops at Georgetown wer'
f advancing TO meet the guerrillas.
= A portion Of the expedition which il
moving from Arkansas into the Indial
nation, encountered recently a body o
-, rebels at Evansville, near the Arkansas
/ line, completely routing them and taking
James J. Clarkson and also,it is reported
General jim Rains, Of Missouri, prisoners
The rebels placed their Indian allies il
front, who are reported to have lost l4(
; in killed and so prisoners.
Saturday, July 1911 "A dispatch from
Cincinnati, dated July 10, says: "a MAJ
,, came into Boyd's on the Kentucky Cen
trail railroad this morning, and report
that the town of Cynthians, sixty -sil
miles from here, surrendered at five
o'clock yesterday, 10 the rebels, after
half hours fight. He says he saw Nor
gan and shook hands with him. Morgan
force numbers about twenty five hundred
"a soldier who also came into Boyd
e says that Morgan's men fred Two round
r after the surrender Of the town, and tina
Captain Anthouy's company, from New
: port, are all killed or made prisoners.
: "The excitement at Newport and Gov
r ington is very high and Increasing. Th
citizens are organizing rapidly for the dc
: fense of Newport, and the provost mar
r shal arrests all sympathzers to-day"
9 General Halleck has given up the i'm
= mediate command Of the army OF tn
i Southwest, and has issued special feel
Q order. complimenting the troops on thei
e courage, vigilance and perseverance.
. Information up to Thursday night ha
e been received from General Mcclellan
o headquarters. The health Of the troop
J. has much improved, and no difficulty az
: lists in receiving subsistence supplies n
military movements of consequence ar
II mentioned. '.
d General Saxton, military Governor (
v South Caroline, reports to the War d.
pariment that everything pertaining