ST. LOUIS, March 27. – A special to the Republican dated
near Island No. 10, the evening of the 27th, says only 30 shells were thrown by
the mortars to-day to which no response was made by the rebels.
This morning Col. Buford sent a reconnoitering party of 20
men of the 27th Illinois ashore. They
arrested three prominent residents who report 2,000 negroes are employed on the
Island and at the batteries along the Island and at the batteries along the
Kentucky shore; that 65 rebel troops including two Lieutenants and four negroes
have been killed by shells; that the upper shore battery is abandoned but the
others are being rapidly strengthened; that the enemy is 15,000 strong and that
their encampment has been moved entirely out of the range of our guns; the
rebels are confident of success and they have a good road to Trenton and other
points by which they can retreat whenever they choose – they have plenty of
provisions. The rebel steamers loaded
with troops were sent to watch the shore to prevent communication; the number
of the enemy’s transports are eleven.
Two balloon ascensions were made by Capt. Steiner but the
weather was too thick for favorable observation.
A partly finished gunboat building at Memphis was fire[d]
the other night but extinguished before much damage was done.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 3
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