Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Southern News

LOUISVILLE, March 27.

Col. Willich’s 3rd [sic] Indiana regiment occupy Columbia, TN.

Memphis papers contain Richmond Dispatches of the 16th, stating that on Friday 2,000 Federals passed the Cumberland Mountains, and captured two companies of our cavalry.

A courier arrived at Knoxville and reported that a Federal force six thousand strong were twenty-five miles from Knoxville, and advancing

Both houses of Congress passed resolutions advising that no cotton be panted this year.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 29, 1862, p. 1

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