CAIRO, March 29.
After a lull in the bombardment of Island No. 10 for a few days, it was renewed vigorously yesterday. The rebels appear to have received and put in position new guns of longer range, and responded more freely to our fire. On both sides there is preparations going on slowly but surely for a fierce and decisive conflict.
Nothing important from Tennessee.
Gen. Strong made a hasty trip to the Island No. 10 yesterday. It being his first release from arduous duties since command here was assigned to him.
Thos. A. Scott, Assistant Secretary of War arrived this morning and left at ten o’clock for Island No. 10. It is surmised his mission is more directly to ascertain precisely what additional ordnance is needed by our forces there. Ammunition arrived to-day.
From Memphis he represents a general feeling of despondency in that city and vicinity, and that but little confidence is felt even in the large force concentrated at Corinth, which as variously estimated at from thirty-five to one hundred and fifty thousand.
Some soldiers barracks were burned here this morning. Loss $2,500.
The Ohio river is falling. The Mississippi is rising.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 31, 1862, p. 1
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