Com. Foote Ready to Attack Ft. Pillow

PHILADELPHIA, April 14.

A Special Dispatch from Washington to the Bulletin says that a dispatch was received by the War Department this morning, from Com. Foote, saying he is ready to attack Fort Pillow, having succeeded in getting a position for his gun boats on the river below the Fort. He has no doubt of success.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1862, p 1