The continued movements ordered by Gen. Fremont against the guerrillas in Webster county have proved eminently successful. Lieut. Lawson, with one detachment employed in this service has returned and others are returning. – In a severe running fight of seven miles, Lawson killed 17 guerrillas and took 10 prisoners.
The town of Addison, a small place, the only one in the new county, being deserted, was burned. It had been a guerrilla haunt.
A formidable organization in Braxton, Webster and adjoining counties, is entirely destroyed, the guerrillas proposing to surrender. It is understood that the guerrillas taken will be promptly shot.
Gen. Milroy’s scouts, on the 23d inst., attacked the rear guard of the enemy ten miles east of the Shenandoah mountains, the boundary of this Department. They killed one Lieutenant and two men and captured a Lieutenant and one man. None of our men hurt.
The rebel conscripts are deserting in large numbers, swearing allegiance to the Union and returning home.
Reports from Staunton say the enemy’s sick and wounded and large trains of soldiers are passing eastward by rail.
Snow fell 18 inches deep at Montroy on the 24th inst.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4
The town of Addison, a small place, the only one in the new county, being deserted, was burned. It had been a guerrilla haunt.
A formidable organization in Braxton, Webster and adjoining counties, is entirely destroyed, the guerrillas proposing to surrender. It is understood that the guerrillas taken will be promptly shot.
Gen. Milroy’s scouts, on the 23d inst., attacked the rear guard of the enemy ten miles east of the Shenandoah mountains, the boundary of this Department. They killed one Lieutenant and two men and captured a Lieutenant and one man. None of our men hurt.
The rebel conscripts are deserting in large numbers, swearing allegiance to the Union and returning home.
Reports from Staunton say the enemy’s sick and wounded and large trains of soldiers are passing eastward by rail.
Snow fell 18 inches deep at Montroy on the 24th inst.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4
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