CAIRO, March 31. – Scattered columns of the rebel infantry
and cavalry have been collected together and are hovering about Columbus,
Hickman, and Cape Girardeau.
Preparations are being made to meet these guerilla bands and beat them
back at once.
About 250 bushels of upland cotton seed is on the way to
Washington and northern points for distribution. The Government agents are having unexpected
success in the collection of seed.
The latest information from below Columbus puts the enemies
present strength at Corinth at 65,000 men, and their force is being increased
as rapidly as impressment and their means of transportation will admit.
Since the murder of Joel, yesterday, the Commanding General
of this post has received orders for the arrest of all liquor dealers and
destruction of their stock, and the breaking up of all gambling saloons.
No news from below to-day that can be sent.
There is nothing new from below.
The troops at Pittsburg are being paid off.
Secession Cavalry are scouring the country along the
Tennessee river, pressing the inhabitants into the rebel service.
A military Colonel who raised a regiment under Harris’s
proclamation, and refused to take the
field, says he can easily 1,000 for the Union [sic].
Many secession cavalry have also been seen back of Columbus.
The river is now falling fast. Weather cloudy and warm.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 5, 1862, p. 4
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