An officer from Corinth, according to the Atlanta Confederacy, reports that the Confederate lines extend over the recent battle ground, and that the Unionists are nine miles beyond there. Active preparations are being made by both armies for the grand decisive struggle at hand.
Beauregard is being heavily reinforced, and skirmishes daily occur between the advance guards.
Mobile papers assert that Nashville has been evacuated, and 4,000 Union prisoners taken.
Gen. Kirby Smith, with a large force is, according to the Atlanta Commonwealth, at Bridgeport, within 17 miles of Huntsville. The evacuation of the latter place by the Yankees is predicted.
Refugees from Norfolk state that the rebels are building another Merrimac of smaller tonnage, and that four more are now building at Norfolk.
The rebel Congress adjourned on Monday last to the 2d Monday in August.
The bill organizing a battalion of sharpshooters was passed on the last day.
The flag and seal report was indefinitely postponed. R. M. T. Hunter was elected President of the Senate pro tem.
The rebel Senate passed the House bill appropriating $150,000 for the construction of a railroad between Galveston and New Orleans.
The President to-day nominated Colonel Tuttle, of the Iowa 2d Regiment, to be Brigadier General of Volunteers.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 26, 1862, p. 1
Beauregard is being heavily reinforced, and skirmishes daily occur between the advance guards.
Mobile papers assert that Nashville has been evacuated, and 4,000 Union prisoners taken.
Gen. Kirby Smith, with a large force is, according to the Atlanta Commonwealth, at Bridgeport, within 17 miles of Huntsville. The evacuation of the latter place by the Yankees is predicted.
Refugees from Norfolk state that the rebels are building another Merrimac of smaller tonnage, and that four more are now building at Norfolk.
The rebel Congress adjourned on Monday last to the 2d Monday in August.
The bill organizing a battalion of sharpshooters was passed on the last day.
The flag and seal report was indefinitely postponed. R. M. T. Hunter was elected President of the Senate pro tem.
The rebel Senate passed the House bill appropriating $150,000 for the construction of a railroad between Galveston and New Orleans.
The President to-day nominated Colonel Tuttle, of the Iowa 2d Regiment, to be Brigadier General of Volunteers.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 26, 1862, p. 1
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