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Island No. 10--from The Tennessee River

Island No. 10--from The Tennessee River image
Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
March
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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Chicago, March 19. A special to tho Tribune, Cairo 19tb, ssys: "The published reporta of tho capture of Island No. 10 aro premature. The hitest accounts fronj Columbus ;ire to 11, yesterday íbrerioon, at which timo heavy cannonading was distincílv ln.'1-.rd iu thc direction of thc Tsland. '■Thcre Lave boen no arriv&la froin Tenncssee or tlic Cumberland for tho last twenty four hours. None of thc gunboats have ascended higher tban S:vvaonah sir.ee tho engagement of the LesJogton with thc rebel battery at Pittsburgh, Thc colUotion of eighty transporfs at Savannah, in conuection with ! atancos kaow:i here uot considered proper for publioation, indicatcs that the country about tho Tenncssee lliver near the Alabauia line will be the threatre of extensivo military operatious. "The steamer, Gladiator, from Paducah, brings a largo quantity of ordnance Stores, captured at Donelson, consisting in part of thirty-eight pieces of artillcry, anti a largo quantity of amraunition. - The steaincr -McGill alna arrived from Pittsburgh Landing, Tenncseee Eiver, having left thero yesterday afternoon. - Sbe reporta no movemeuta of iivportance by the tronps concentrated there. Skirmighes liad oceurred betwcen pickets, two or throe boing killed on each side, and four rebels taken prisoners. The rebels are concentratÍDg at Corinth, Mississippi, and Decatur, Alábanla, at the latter placo in lnrge numbers. The oíBcers of the MeGill report that therc is not a a particle of Unionism thereabouts. " A gentleman just arrived from Pittsburgb Landing, Baya that on Friday last the rebels burut tho bridge aud destroyed the track of the Charleston and Memphis Railroad betweep Florence and Eastport. Tho country in that vicinity ia covered with water, the Tennepsee havinc overflowed i ts banka. Military operations are ncccessarily restnetcd. The rebels avoid i'uc river, kceping out of the range of the gunboats. Tiio ruuêl force at Deeatur and Corinth is estimat:d to number 40,000. " The latest intelligence from bclow is contained in a dispateh from Gen. Pope, datod 7 A. M , stating iliat up to a little before that tiiao fii-incr had been heavy aud continuous. At; 7 !iiatör:u!!y slackcued. " Information from Columbus reccived last evcning states that the rebels had reappeared on tho banks of the river, six miles below Columbus. No trouble is auticipated from them."

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