ST. LOUIS, February 19.
The Republican’s Cairo dispatch says:
Latest from Donelson reports the gun boat St. Louis, Capt. Paulding, proceeded up the Cumberland to Clarksville, and found the enemy abandoning that place in a panic. – Two flats laden with munitions of war, were captured at a rolling mill, just below Clarksville. Everything was being moved to Nashville as fast as possible, where the next rebel stand would be made. Everything at Donelson is progressing satisfactorily. Our army are encamped in the capitulated works, having comfortable quarters in the log huts and tents of the late garrison.
Our soldiers are enthusiastic and anxious to march at once against Nashville.
With the exception of severe colds, consequent upon the recent exposure, our army was well.
The actual number of prisoners taken was 13,000. Among them Gen. West, not previously mentioned.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 20, 1862, p. 1
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