St. Louis, March 26.
The Republican’s Cairo correspondent says that persons who have lately arrived from Memphis, report that Beauregard, Polk, Cheatham and Clark are at or near Corinth, Miss., where it is expected a great battle will soon be fought.
The rebels at Island No. 10 have not burned their transports and barges, as previously reported, but were transporting cannons and ammunition from the Island to the main land. They communicated by signal lights with their forces at Union city, night before last.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 27, 1862, p. 1
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