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Vermont Phœnix Domestic News February 20, 1862
Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont
What is this article about?
Rebels evacuated Bowling Green; Gen. Mitchell's troops crossed the river and occupied the town; railroad and turnpike bridges destroyed; part of town reported burning.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 98.61% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 98.82% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 97.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 95.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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IMPORTANT FROM KENTUCKY.
The Rebels Run from Bowling Green!
A despatch from Maj Gen Buell at Louisville, Saturday, to Gen McClellan at Washington, states that Gen Mitchell's division of federal troops by a forced march reached the river at Bowling Green, Saturday morning, and commenced building a bridge to cross, the enemy having burned their bridge at 1 o'clock the same morning, and began evacuating the place as fast as possible when Mitchell arrived.
BOWLING GREEN OCCUPIED.
A dispatch from Louisville, on Sunday, says Gen Mitchell's troops have crossed the river, and are in possession of Bowling Green.
LATER.—PART OF THE TOWN BURNED.
On learning that the rebels were evacuating Bowling Green, Gen Buell ordered a forced march by Gen Mitchell, to save, if possible, the railroad and turnpike bridges on Big Barren river. They, however, had all been destroyed when Gen Mitchell reached the bank of the river. The brigades of Gen Breckinridge and Hindman were until Thursday evening at Woodland station. The rebels left nothing at Bowling Green except a few old wagons. A part of the town, it is reported, is being burnt. It is believed now that no rebel forces exist in Kentucky, east of the direct road from Bowling Green via Franklin to Nashville.
The Rebels Run from Bowling Green!
A despatch from Maj Gen Buell at Louisville, Saturday, to Gen McClellan at Washington, states that Gen Mitchell's division of federal troops by a forced march reached the river at Bowling Green, Saturday morning, and commenced building a bridge to cross, the enemy having burned their bridge at 1 o'clock the same morning, and began evacuating the place as fast as possible when Mitchell arrived.
BOWLING GREEN OCCUPIED.
A dispatch from Louisville, on Sunday, says Gen Mitchell's troops have crossed the river, and are in possession of Bowling Green.
LATER.—PART OF THE TOWN BURNED.
On learning that the rebels were evacuating Bowling Green, Gen Buell ordered a forced march by Gen Mitchell, to save, if possible, the railroad and turnpike bridges on Big Barren river. They, however, had all been destroyed when Gen Mitchell reached the bank of the river. The brigades of Gen Breckinridge and Hindman were until Thursday evening at Woodland station. The rebels left nothing at Bowling Green except a few old wagons. A part of the town, it is reported, is being burnt. It is believed now that no rebel forces exist in Kentucky, east of the direct road from Bowling Green via Franklin to Nashville.
What sub-type of article is it?
Military
What keywords are associated?
Bowling Green
Evacuation
Gen. Mitchell
Rebels
What entities or persons were involved?
Gen. Buell
Gen. Mitchell
Gen. Breckinridge
Gen. Hindman
Where did it happen?
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Event Date
Saturday/Sunday
Key Persons
Gen. Buell
Gen. Mitchell
Gen. Breckinridge
Gen. Hindman
Outcome
bowling green occupied; bridges destroyed; part of town burned.