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The Occupation Of Mobile

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
April
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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A oorrespondent oí tho Cincinnat' Gazette says : On Monday, the lOth of April, the little steamer Mustang ran up to the landing at Spanish Fort, regurdless o: the torpedoes, which had Bunk some o our iron-clad ressels, and paralyzec others ; reconnoitered Forts Tracy anc Huger ; reeeived the oompliment o some forty heavy shots flred at her, auc returned without injury. All boats at Howard's Landing, below Spanish Fort, wore detained on order of Geueral Cunby, to carry the I3th corps over to the west side of the bay, where it was intended they should land and rnove upon mobile from the south, while the lCth corps and other troops crossed the Tensas and Mobile Rivers and advanced upon the city from the north. All day it was evident that the enemy were leaving Mobile, and destroying s;ich pi'operty as they could not take away. On Tuesday, the llth, Traey and Huger, which had been abandoued during the night, feil iulo our hands, with twenty pieces of heavy artillery. Wednesday, tho 12th,' Brigadier General Veatch, oommanding the 3d División of the 13th Corps, crossed the bay with a portion of bis commaDcl, and at Dog Eiver point, near the mouth of the streiun of that name, was met by the Mayor oí Mobile, and a deputation oí líitizens, who formally suirendered the city into bis hands. That evening some of our transporta moved up to the wharf at Mobile, and ■m Thursday moiniug the Union flag was iloating trom all the public buildngs; and our troops were received bv miny of the populace with enthusiastic lonionstrations of joy. Such of the rebel troops as still coninued under the redoubUble Maury, mbarked in trausports, Tuesday night, ind escorted by a couple oí g'jnb.iatt, noved up tho Alubilo and Alubama .livers, towards Montgomery. Oce of our tugs, tbe Althea, aid a beautiful little craft callcd tho Laura, foruierly usud as a dispatch boat by General Grauger, wcro blowu up by torpedoea in the bay on Wudnesday. On Tlmrsduy tLe I6th corps reoeived uiarching: orders, r.nd sturted up the rivcr, n tho direction of Montgomery. üur ontire loss in tlieso two operatioiii will bot (.-xcecd 800 in killed aud woundod. Recent uxploraliona have domon?trated that tht; Colorado river i navigablo six Lundred miles abovc ita mouth, and to within foor hnndred miles of Salt Lako

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Michigan Argus