Secretary Welles to-day received a dispatch dated Columbus, March 4, saying Columbus is in our possession. Since our reconnoisance of the 2d inst. they evacuated in haste, leaving quite a number of guns, ammunition, &c., and a large quantity of shot. Here was also found a remnant of the chain cable lately stretched across the river at this point, with a quantity of torpedoes. Most of the tents, &c., were destroyed. The works were not of any great strength.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 6, 1862, p. 1
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