Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-10-24

CfniNGflELD, NO., OCG. Il.
A prisoner in the camp Of Gen. Rains, ant
who escaped at the time Of the fight at New
tonia, gives the following account Of the con
dition of tn, rebels on the southeastern Dor
der: ? " 81 .
Soldiers say Mcbride and Parsons has
eight or ten thousand men. Rains had fiji
teen thousand, ten Thousand Of whom only
were effective; Cooper eight hundred, ant
Coffee and Shelby from four to five thousand
besides that Standewaitz had fifteen hunslret
Indians. Is va q
The general plan of the invasion of Nilsson
n was: the rebels would march in three col.
umns, under Cooper, Parsons and Rains. The
hrst points, to be taken were Sp ingfeld, Mt
Vernon and Rome. They thought there
were only about 5000 Federal troops in the
State, and that the capture Of Jefferson City
and St. Louis would be an easy matter
Hindman made speech, in which he prom
ised that the stars and bars would float all
along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers be-
| fore Christmas.
The rebel army is represented to be in a
fright ul condition. Only about three -fourths
of them are armed at all, and many that are
armed are only provided with shot guns and
squirrel rifles Dozens of regiments are with
out hats, and the lack of clothing and blank
cts is generally felt. Hundreds of men are
bare-footed, bare-headed and ragged. Our
informant was amused at scores Of cavalry
who had large Mexican spurs buckled on their
bare heels Provisions are very scarce among
them-bread and water, with an occasional
relish OF beef, without salt, being their princi-
pal diet There was no discipline among
these portions of the rebel army Half Of
them were drunk when whiskey was to be
had, and for Safeguarding and general i'm
moral conduct, their equals were never seen
or known
LOUISVILLE, Oct 21-11:30 P. NJ.
Gen. Jeff. c. Davis, who killed Gen Nelson,
has been released from arrest and ordered to
report for duty at Cincinnati, and left here
this evening.
Gen. Dumont passed through here this
evening, en- route for Indianapolis.
One hundred and fifty rebel prisoners from
Frankfort and Lexington, and three hundred
paroled Federal prisoners from Cox's Creek,
have arrived here. They left On Monday at
3 o'clock ii the morning, and mp to 2 this af-
ternoon had nothing to eat, Morgan having
destroyed all the captured provisions that he
could not carry away. Morgan's men changed
clothes with many of orr prisoners, and his
band ar. said now to be clothed in Federal
uniforms r..
The bridges over Rolling Fork and Bacon
Creek have been destroyed by the rebels.
Eight commissioners, sent by the Chicago
Sanitary Commission, who were captured
near Cox's Creek, have arrived here. Nor
gan's men took all their supplies.
On Monday morning the rebels at Cox's
Creek captured 7. B. Lewis, Postmaster of
Woods division, with all his mails, containing
several thousand letters, the money from
which they took and then destroyed all the
letters.
Neff. of the 4th Ohio and Choote, of the
9Th Ohio Cavalry, have arrived here. They
were captured near Bardstown, while proceed
ing to join their regiments, and paroled.
Choote had two commissions for Gov Tod
for transmission, whereof one was for Col
Anderson's 9Th Ohio Infantry, on the back
of which Morgan endorsed "Approved, John
H. Morgan, Oct Goth, 1852"
These men say that Morgan's men entered
Elizabethtown, Monday, broke open the Post
Office, and were then driven out by two Fed
eral regiments.
New York. Oct. 21.