From Grant’s Army – Railroad Bridges Destroyed

Pittsburg Landing, April 14.

A force of four thousand on five transports left the Landing on Saturday night accompanied by the gunboats Tyler and [Lexington], and proceeded up the stream to a point near Eastport, Miss., landed and proceeded inland to Bear Creek bridge, and destroyed the two bridges on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, one measuring one hundred and twenty and the other two hundred and ten feet in length. A cavalry force of one hundred and fifty men was found there, who, after having four killed, skedaddled in the most approved southern style. The expedition returned Sunday night, without having lost a man. This was one of the most successful operations of the kind during the war, completely cutting off communication of the main rebel body at Corinth with the rest of the Confederates, except New Orleans.

A flag of truce arrived at our outpost yesterday with Gen. Johnston’s son, of Ky., asking the fate of his father.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862