WASHINGTON, April 29. – The following was received today at the War Department:
SEVEN MILES FROM MONTROY, Tenn.,
April 28.
Five companies of our cavalry had a skirmish with the enemy’s cavalry, two miles in advance of this. The enemy retreated. Five of them were killed, one a major. Eighteen prisoners with horses and arms, were captured, and are now in camp. One of the prisoners, named Vaughan, was formerly foreman in the Louisville Democrat office. We had one man wounded but none killed. Our forces are in capital spirits. The prisoners say that the enemy has upwards of 80,000 men at Corinth and will fight, and that they are entrenching and mounting large guns.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday May 3, 1862, p. 4
SEVEN MILES FROM MONTROY, Tenn.,
April 28.
Five companies of our cavalry had a skirmish with the enemy’s cavalry, two miles in advance of this. The enemy retreated. Five of them were killed, one a major. Eighteen prisoners with horses and arms, were captured, and are now in camp. One of the prisoners, named Vaughan, was formerly foreman in the Louisville Democrat office. We had one man wounded but none killed. Our forces are in capital spirits. The prisoners say that the enemy has upwards of 80,000 men at Corinth and will fight, and that they are entrenching and mounting large guns.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday May 3, 1862, p. 4
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