Letter from Captain Lyon to Mrs. Lyon. “Nov. 5, 1861.–We are ordered to march to Greenville. I think there will be no fighting–just to show the Secesh that we are about. I expect that we shall be gone 10 or 12 days.”

Daily Times [Leavenworth, Ks], November 5, 1861 In the District Court, yesterday, Judge McDowell in the course of his charge to the Grand Jury, commented on Jayhawking with such ability, eloquence and patriotism, that we publish that branch of his charge in full. The Judge said: “I feel it to be my duty, Gentlemen of [...]

Camp Ewing, November 5, 1861. Tuesday morning. Dearest Lucy: – … We are having stirring times again. The enemy on the other side of New River are trying to shell such of our camps as lie near the river bank. We are just out of reach of their shot. McCook, in sight of us below, [...]

Camp Ewing, November 5. – Six hundred and fifty-seven present for duty; sixty-nine sick. Total strength nine hundred and thirty-six. Absent one hundred and ninety-three – all sick but about forty on detached service. Captain Woodward worse and in great danger. Enemy firing again on McCook’s camp. No casualties at 10:30 o’clock.

Boston, November 5, 1861 By the last mail I got a letter from you intended for the press. I have not however used it as intended. . . . The great facts of the case stand out. Six months of this war have gone and in them we have done much; and by we I [...]

November 5.–Parker H. French, alias Lieut. Carlisle Murray, alias Charles Maxy, who had been travelling in various parts of the West and North, for the purpose chiefly of organizing the order known as the Knights of the Golden Circle, was arrested in Branford, Connecticut, by the superintendent of the Government detective police from Washington and [...]

November 5, 1861 Skirmish at Boston, Ky.