FORT PILLOW INVESTED

THE MORTAR BOATS OPEN FIRE.

WASHINGTON, April 16 – The Secretary of the Navy has received the following:

CAIRO, April 15. – The flotilla has been within three quarters of a mile of Fort Pillow and then returning took up a position two miles further up. The rebel gunboats escaped. Below the fort the mortar boats were in position and had opened fire.

This was up to six o’clock last evening.

Gen. Pope’s Command was occupying the Arkansas side of the river.

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1863