Fatal Duel In Kentucky

Our readers will remember the very bold and able Union speech by Col. Leonidas Metcalfe, at Carlisle, Nicholas county, Kentucky, on the 14^th of April, which was published in the Gazette shortly after its delivery.  We learn that on the 8^th inst. A duel was fought between the Colonel and W. T. Casto, a notorious secession lawyer of Maysville, who was recently liberated from Fort Lafayette.  The origin of the difficulty was the Colonel’s instrumentality in procuring the imprisonment of Casto.  The encounter took place one mile below Dover, Kentucky.  The weapons were Sharp’s rifles, the distance twenty five yards.  Casto had the first fire.  The Colonel returned by shooting his adversary through the heart. – {Cin. Gazette

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 1

We are told that General Jones . . .

. . . although making very earnest inquiries, has failed to learn the cause of his imprisonment at Fort Lafayette!  He has a hopeful son also deprived of his liberty, being confined at Camp Douglas, Chicago.  Has the General been able to learn why he is imprisoned by the ‘Lincoln despotism?’

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

From Port Royal

New York, Feb. 13.

The Baltic arrived brings 700 bales of cotton and crews of the stone fleet. – Eight rebel prisoners were also brought and placed in Ft. Lafayette, who were taken in a boat.

The weather was getting disagreeably warm and heavy rains falling. Contrabands were still picking cotton, and their number fast increasing. Gen. Sherman has succeeded in excluding all reporters from his lines.

Several regiments have been removed from Hilton Head to the fort on Daufuskie Island, the nearest point to Fort Pulaski that can be occupied except Tybee. Several gun boats, a schooner and a number of flats with Parrott guns, howitzers and mortars, accompanied the expedition. Tatnall’s gun boats soon after made their appearance, and three ran the gauntlet to Ft. Pulaski. Stevens’ brigade was prevented from forming a junction on account of obstructions in the river.

Fort Pulaski is said to be in as bad a fix as Sumter was.

Our engineers are driving piles to a marshy island, for a road and a foundation for batteries. This island lies between the Union forces and Fort Jackson.

Our forces make advances every day. Our gun boats had shelled out a post on Pine Island, and made an advance toward Bluffton, where is a large force. Fort Jackson is to be taken, and Savannah will soon be captured.

Another account says, the expedition left Monday, including all the gun boats and transports sufficient for the shipment of 12,000 troops which will go through Calabogue sound into Savannah river, without coming within range of Fort Pulaski’s guns.

The rebels have withdrawn a large number of troops form Charleston and Port Royal to Savannah. 12,000 troops were to leave soon to take the railroad, and thence to Charleston. Three regiments of cavalry join them; also several artillery regiments. Weather healthful – troops enthusiastic.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 14, 1862, p. 1

Gen. Stone

The telegraph has already given us reasons for the arrest of Gen. Stone, which are probably the correct ones. Of his guilt, there seems to be abundant evidence. A gentleman residing in this county has received a letter from his son, who is a soldier in Gen. Stone’s brigade, in which he says that the officer was frequently seen to pass through the lines of our army toward the rebel camp after nightfall, with a bundle of papers under his arm. No doubt evidence of this kind has been presented to the committee on the management of the war, which they have laid before the War Department, with the effect to send him to Fort Lafayette.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2

Capt. Jones, of Fort Henry

Among the prisoners captured at Fort Henry was one Captain G. R. G. Jones. We learn that this rebel captain is the son of Hon. Geo. W. Jones, formerly of Dubuque, Iowa, now of Fort Lafayette. The Dubuque Herald says that it doubts if ever Capt. Jones’ family knew that he was in the rebel army! Nonsense, didn’t the rebel Jones in his letter state that he had a son in the Southern army? We are under that impression, and also that the public give him the discredit of having two sons there. We presume young Jones will be sent to sympathize with his father at Fort Lafayette. And unfortunate family, those Joneses.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 13, 1862, p. 2

Gen. Stone Arrested

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.

Gen. Stone Passed through this city on the 12 o’clock train last night, in custody, en route for Fort Lafayette.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, February 11, 1862, p. 1