WASHINGTON, March 2. – A dispatch was received to-day from
Com. Foot saying that Lieut. Phelps, sent with a flag of truce to Columbus, has
returned, and reports Columbus being evacuated.
He saw the rebels burning their winter quarters and removing heavy guns
on the bluffs but leaving those in the water batteries. The indications were that the town of
Columbus together with the military stores, &c. had been burned.
Gen. Shields succeeds Gen. Lander in his command.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 3
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