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.
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