The Atlanta Journal Constitution Presents
The Atlanta Constitution
August 21, 1864
VOL. 5 - No. 21 (235)
"Front Page" 

INDIANA PLOT ABANDONED.
  Indianapolis, Ind.  - State politicians moved this week to nip a plot to free Confederate prisoners at nearby Camp Morton and seize the arsenal.  The idea, advanced mainly by HARRISON H. DODD, State Commander of the Sons of Liberty, was to start a general uprising in the war-weary North.  But some Democratic leaders heart of the plot and induced Dodd to abandon it.  The attempt was to have occurred TUESDAY; the day passed without incident at the camp. 

MEMPHIS IS RAIDED
  General Forrest's Calvary Struck This Morning
Memphis, TN - Eluding Gen. A. J. Smith's 18,000 federals - sent into Mississippi to destroy him, Gen. N. b. Forrest set this federal city into an uproar early this morning by raiding it with 1,500 men. 

Details are too confused as we go to press, but it seems likely that Forrest and his lightning cavalry have clearly surprised the federal garrison here.  Smith had been ordered to "get" Forrest, even if it cost 10,000 men but Forrest knowing he hasn't sufficient force to face Smith head-on, elected to circumvent him.

MOBILE BAY, ALABAMA 
bottled up by Adm. D. G. Farragut's fleet, still has one Confederate outpost intact - Ft. Morgan, now confronted by Gen. Gordon Granger with more than 5,000 men strengthened by the arrival Wednesday of a siege train from new Orleans, La.  the 400 Confederates under Col. R. L. Page in Ft. Morgan expect a bombardment momentarily.

Major clashes elsewhere:  Gravel Hill, VA; Sunday:  Three federals killed, 18 wounded... Fisher's Hill, Va., Monday 30 federals wounded... Front Royal, VA., Tuesday:  Untion 13 killed, 58 wounded with 30 Confederates killed, 150 wounded and 300 captured... Gainesville, Fla., Wednesday: 16 federals killed, 30 wounded, 102 missing... Winchester, VA., Wednesday:  50 federals wounded and 250 missing... Snicker's Gap, Va., Friday: 30 federals killed, three wounded... Martinsburg, Va.,  Friday: 25 Federals killed and wounded... Pine Bluff, Tenn., Friday:  Eight federals killed.

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