ST. LOUIS, May 29 – The Cairo correspondent of the Republican says troubles are breaking out afresh in West Tennessee.
A considerable force is said to be at Trenton ready to march on Union City and Hickman – Union men from Weakley and Ohio counties have gone to Hickman for protection.
Four or five hundred rebel cavalry are stationed near the mouth of the Ohio river awaiting the drying of the swamps in that region to plant a battery and prevent the passage of our transports on the Mississippi.
A paroled prisoner from New Orleans 18th, says Gen. Lovell’s forces are still at Camp Jackson, Miss.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 3
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