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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

From Cairo

CAIRO, May 7.

No intelligence from Pittsburg has been received within the last 24 hours.

Arrivals from Com. Foote’s flotilla report no change of movement below.

A number of our cavalry from Fort Herman were attacked by a force of rebel cavalry, while out on scouting duty and driven to Paducah.

Fugitives reported that several of their comrades had been taken prisoners.  But little credit is given to the report.  Two of them made their way to Columbus, and it is supposed that others have by this time returned to their camps.  All fortifications on the Mississippi have recently been strengthened under the supervision of Lieut. Col. Duff, of the 2nd Illinois Artillery, so that they could command the river from below as well as above.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, May 8, 1862, p. 1