MONTEREY, May 14. – A reconnoissance party under Brig.-Gen. A. J. Smith had a skirmish with the rebel pickets on our right yesterday, in which they had 2 killed 3 wounded and 5 captured. Our loss is 2. The party went within half a mile of the rebel battery, which was supported by a brigade of infantry, just outside of the entrenchments. The Commanding General moves his camp to-day four miles from here to the front. Our forces average 2 ½ to 3 miles from the intrenchments. The army is advancing slowly because of the nature of the ground. It is generally understood that the engagement will come off in the course of a week.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3
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