From Tennessee

CAIRO, March 21.

Direct and positive information has arrived from Gen. Grant, at Savannah, 210 miles up the Tennessee river, and 60 miles from Florence, Ala.  The troops are in fine health and spirits, with plenty of provisions and water.

Beauregard commands at Corinth, 15,000 troops from Pensacola.  Cheatham and Bragg have their divisions near.  Heavy forces are gathering on both sides.

There is a strong Union feeling at Savannah.  About 600 volunteers have been enlisted there recently in the Union army.

On the night of the 13^th, a division of the Ohio 5^th cavalry, under Wallace, but Cheatham’s forces to flight, and burned a railroad bridge across a slough.

The Federal army in the vicinity is divided into five divisions under command of Gen.s Sherman, Hurlbut, McClernand, Wallace and Lauman.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 22, 1862, p. 1