CAIRO, May 8. – The roads near Corinth are in such a horrible condition as to stay all contemplated movements of the army.
The headquarters of Gen. Halleck and Grant are not located at Monterey.
There is a large number of hospital boats at Pittsburg landing, sent by Sanitary Commissions from Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati.
The Illinois sick and wounded on them are all taken care of by the State, besides the steamer Champion now coming down, enroute for Quincy, Illinois.
Governor Yates yesterday charted the steamer City of Alton, to bring home sick Illinois soldiers.
The river is still receding.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3
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