August 29th.–No more feminine gossip, but the licensed slanderer, the mighty Russell, of the Times. He says the battle of the 21st was fought at long range: 500 yards apart were the combatants. The Confederates were steadily retreating when some commotion in the wagon train frightened the “Yanks,” and they made tracks. In good English, [...]

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1861. It has rained almost incessantly today and I have done but little but stay in the house. Mr Brownson and myself went down to the Pat office and found that the “knapsack” had passed. Mr B. left for home on the 21/2 train. I went to the Depot with him. The [...]

Thursday, 29.–Moved into the Presbyterian church to await our tents and train.

AUGUST 29th.—We have intelligence from the North that immense preparations are being made for our destruction; and some of our people begin to say, that inasmuch as we did not follow up the victory at Manassas, it was worse than a barren one, having only exasperated the enemy, and stimulated the Abolitionists to renewed efforts. [...]

Daily Times [Leavenworth, Ks], August 29, 1861 A large number of Osages, in full war costume, came into town last Thursday to offer their services to their Father at Washington. They rode around the plaza several times singing their war song, and followed by large numbers of curious soldiers. In the evening they gave a [...]

Thursday, 29th–News came that they had a fight at Keokuk; the boys that went down had a lively skirmish with the “secesh” just across the river in Missouri.[i] [i] This was doubtless what is known as the battle of Athens.–Ed

August 29th.–It is hard to bear such a fate as befalls an unpopular man in the United States, because in no other country, as De Tocqueville remarks (p. 200, Spencer’s American edition, New York, 1858), is the press so powerful when it is unanimous. And yet he says, too, “The journalist of the United States [...]

August 29.–The joint expedition, commanded by General B. F. Butler and Commodore S. H. Stringham, after two days’ cannonading, succeeded in capturing Forts Clark and Hatteras, at Hatteras Inlet, N. C., with the garrison of the latter fort. Thirty pieces of cannon, one thousand stand of arms, and a quantity of provisions, fell into possession [...]

August 29, 1861 The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries gives Federal forces control of Pamlico Sound. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Lexington, Mo., attacked by 2,000 rebels. The place was defended by 250 men, who successfully beat off their assailants. Twenty~three rebels captured at Greytown, Mo. A Chronological History of the [...]