FORT PILLOW, April 22. – The Rain has ceased and the sun shines for the first time in a week.
For three days not a gun has been heard in this vicinity, both commandants being to save their powder until something can be accomplished by its destination. This lull may presage a storm to come, though at present that storm seems far distant.
The enemy are reported to have 14 gunboats off the Fort, together with the Manassas Ram – the latter and seven of the former having arrived on Sunday.
Hollins [sic] has returned from New Orleans with the McCrea.
The Decota to-day takes one hundred bales of cotton to Cairo, the first shipment up the Mississippi river since the breaking out of hostilities:. There is reported to be much more in this vicinity
– Published in The Burlington Weekly-Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 26, 1862, p. 3
For three days not a gun has been heard in this vicinity, both commandants being to save their powder until something can be accomplished by its destination. This lull may presage a storm to come, though at present that storm seems far distant.
The enemy are reported to have 14 gunboats off the Fort, together with the Manassas Ram – the latter and seven of the former having arrived on Sunday.
Hollins [sic] has returned from New Orleans with the McCrea.
The Decota to-day takes one hundred bales of cotton to Cairo, the first shipment up the Mississippi river since the breaking out of hostilities:. There is reported to be much more in this vicinity
– Published in The Burlington Weekly-Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 26, 1862, p. 3
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