The Greensborough Patriot
Aug. 7, 1862
Page 2
Editorial Summary.
Information
has been received at headquarters which states that Col.
Armstrong, commanding the Cavalry of the army of the West, has taken Courtland, Alabama,
capturing one hundred and fifty-nine Federals and six cars. The Confederate loss was two killed and eight
wounded. The citizens of Courtland were
frantic with joy.
It
is stated that fifteen thousand Federals during last week passed Tuscumbia
eastward, destined for Chattanooga.
Passengers
from Memphis report that our guerrillas have
burned several Federal transports on the Tennessee river, near Eastport.
The
notorious Jim Lane
has been commissioned by the Yankee Congress to raise a brigade of negro soldiers in Kansas,
and he has gone thither for that purpose.
The
Yankees fear that Jackson with 23,000 men, and Ewell with 6,000 are preparing for an advance on Washington city.
Halleck has left Washington
for the Peninsula.
Morgan’s
command has returned to Tennessee
after making the most daring and successful incursion into the enemy’s country
ever recorded—losing only 20 killed and forty wounded. His present whereabouts is not given.
From
Savannah we
learn that five gunboats opened on our batteries at Genesis Point, on the Ogechee river. After an engagement of several hours the
enemy backed down retiring to the Sound with one boat considerably damaged.
From
the Wilmington Journal of the 2nd, we learn that three of the
enemy’s steamers are off Fort
Fisher. They captured last night a sloop deeply
loaded, from her looks supposed to be the Spray, Capt. Brown, of Wilmington, inward bound.
A
meeting lately held in Detroit
to facilitate the raising of new regiments for the war, and broke up in a row.
Late
accounts indicate that the rumor which has had currency for two or three days
past, to the effect that the Yankees were advancing upon Kinston in two
columns, one by Trenton and the other by the Dover road, and also shelling
their way up Neuse river seems to have been without foundation, though two or
three of their steamers are said to have gone up Neuse river throwing
shells. Sol Williams, acting Brigadier,
is in command at Kinston,
and will doubtless be prepared for any emergency that the Yankees may bring
about in that quarter.
A
portion of our artillery opened on McClellan’s fleet on Friday morning last,
with a tremendous cannonade. An account
of this affair will be found in another column written by one who participated
in the action. Our correspondent omits
to mention that six of our men were wounded, caused by an accident with one of
our guns.
Andy
Johnson has sent the Revs. Elliott, Ford, and Baldwin from Nashville to the Indiana
penitentiary.
The
National Intelligencer and Baltimore Sun of late dates have been received in Staunton. They announce the resignation of Seward, and
state that the Governors of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Connecticut
refuse to send more men in the field.
The National Intelligencer accuses Seward of having been engaged for the
last sixty days, through England,
to bring about an armistice. Vallandigham is stumping Ohio against the war and the administration,
addressing immense audiences with great favor and applause.
