(Special to the Chicago Journal.)
CHICAGO, April 25.
The steamers Choctaw, and Belle Memphis arrived last evening at 9 o’clock, which left Pittsburg Landing early on Thursday morning. They were fired into 35 miles below Pittsburg by a band of guerillas from behind their dwellings on the left bank of the Tennessee. The Choctaw received 7 shots and her mate killed. The [Belle] Memphis received 12 shots, mortally wounding a negro boy who was blacking boots. In the mate’s room near the pilot, one ball entered the keyhole of the pilot house door lock. The guerillas fired at the house to draw our men out on deck.
The roads at Shiloh are reported improving. Skirmishing between pickets continues. Our army goes forward in a solid column.
The water has risen nearly two inches since yesterday noon, and still rising rapidly. Inundation seems imminent. Lower Mississippi fearfully overflowed, causing the greatest loss of property ever known there by flood.
It is determined soon to evacuate Mound City Hospital. The inmates are to be removed to other points, were ample accommodations are being provided.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 26, 1862, p. 1
CHICAGO, April 25.
The steamers Choctaw, and Belle Memphis arrived last evening at 9 o’clock, which left Pittsburg Landing early on Thursday morning. They were fired into 35 miles below Pittsburg by a band of guerillas from behind their dwellings on the left bank of the Tennessee. The Choctaw received 7 shots and her mate killed. The [Belle] Memphis received 12 shots, mortally wounding a negro boy who was blacking boots. In the mate’s room near the pilot, one ball entered the keyhole of the pilot house door lock. The guerillas fired at the house to draw our men out on deck.
The roads at Shiloh are reported improving. Skirmishing between pickets continues. Our army goes forward in a solid column.
The water has risen nearly two inches since yesterday noon, and still rising rapidly. Inundation seems imminent. Lower Mississippi fearfully overflowed, causing the greatest loss of property ever known there by flood.
It is determined soon to evacuate Mound City Hospital. The inmates are to be removed to other points, were ample accommodations are being provided.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 26, 1862, p. 1
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