“Accounts from St. Louis
Date
4-11-1812
Newspaper
National Intelligencer
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 2
Newspaper Location
Washington, D. C.
Serial Number
987
Abstract
Brief article from St. Louis that there was damage on the west side of the Mississippi river that made it impassable. Probable source the Louisiana Gazette
Transcript
Accounts from St. Louis, L. T. to the 21st ult. speak of continued hostile movements amongst the Indian tribes. By the two following paragraphs, from the Louisiana Gazette of that date, we find that the law, passed at the present session, for raising six companies of mounted rangers, has been already executed to valuable purpose: "The new company of Rangers now doing duty in the district of St. Charles, are, perhaps, as fine a body of hardy woodsmen as ever took the field. They cover, by constant & rapid movement, that tract of country from Salt river on the Mississippi to the Missouri near Loutre. "The company of Rrangers raised in the Illinois, under the command of Capt. Whitesides, have marched to the most exposed section of their frontier: report says that they are as fine a company as ever trod the tented field." The ravages of the Earthquake on the west bank of the Mississippi are described as having been very destructive, completely impeding all travelling in some cases.
Recommended Citation
"“Accounts from St. Louis" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 959.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/959
