Condition of Our Troops – They Ask to be Led Against Nashville – Number of Prisoners 13,300.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 19. – The Republican’s Cairo dispatch says latest advices from Fort Donelson report the gunboat St. Louis, Capt. Paulding, proceeded up the Cumberland to Clarksville and found the enemy abandoning that place in panic.
Two large flats, laden with munitions of war, were captured at Rolling Mills, just below Clarksville.
Everything is being moved to Nashville, where the next Rebel stand would be made.
Everything at Donelson is progressing satisfactorily. Our army are encamped in captured works, having comfortable quarters in log huts and tents in the late garrison.
Our soldiers are very enthusiastic and are anxious to march at once against Nashville.
With the exception of sever colds, consequent upon recent exposure, the army was well.
The actual number of prisoners taken were 13,300, among them Gen. West not previously mentioned.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 3
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