NEW YORK, April 25.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Koenrner, of Ill., has been designated to the post of Minister to Spain in place of Carl Schurz, provided the latter intends not to return.
We have a statement from the Atlanta (Ga.) Confederacy Stating that the Northern Alabama and Western Georgia are completely at the mercy of Gen. Mitchell, whose present position is declared to be such, at Gunter's Landing, that he can at once proceed to Rome, take that city, burn down the foundries and capture all the arms, take possession of the engines on the railroad, and not only cut off reinforcements and means of retreat from the rebel Gen. Kirby Smith, who was alleged to be marching towards Huntsville, but leave at the same time the rebel forces at Knoxville, Greenville and Cumberland Gap, together with all Western Virginia, completely exposed.
The Richmond Examiner, of the 22d, speaking of affairs at Yorktown, says: “Our troops have cut a canal between the York and Warwick rivers, which gives us a water front across that whole stretch of country, which must contribute materially to the strength of our position.”
The Examiner further states that on Saturday last our troops were engaged in throwing up entrenchments, and at daylight on Sunday they were completed and guns mounted within 1,000 yards of the rebels’ position.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 26, 1862, p. 1
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Koenrner, of Ill., has been designated to the post of Minister to Spain in place of Carl Schurz, provided the latter intends not to return.
We have a statement from the Atlanta (Ga.) Confederacy Stating that the Northern Alabama and Western Georgia are completely at the mercy of Gen. Mitchell, whose present position is declared to be such, at Gunter's Landing, that he can at once proceed to Rome, take that city, burn down the foundries and capture all the arms, take possession of the engines on the railroad, and not only cut off reinforcements and means of retreat from the rebel Gen. Kirby Smith, who was alleged to be marching towards Huntsville, but leave at the same time the rebel forces at Knoxville, Greenville and Cumberland Gap, together with all Western Virginia, completely exposed.
The Richmond Examiner, of the 22d, speaking of affairs at Yorktown, says: “Our troops have cut a canal between the York and Warwick rivers, which gives us a water front across that whole stretch of country, which must contribute materially to the strength of our position.”
The Examiner further states that on Saturday last our troops were engaged in throwing up entrenchments, and at daylight on Sunday they were completed and guns mounted within 1,000 yards of the rebels’ position.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 26, 1862, p. 1
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