ST. LOUIS, April 7. – Despatches from Gen. Halleck state
that Gen. Sturgis and Gen. Craig have been sent to the Indian territory.
Gen. Buell’s advanced guard has reached Gen. Grant.
Andrew Jackson Nulty, of Tennessee, reports the arrest of
several prominent persons engaged in the rebellion, and that the Union cause is
working well.
Gen. Jackson is near New Market, Virginia. Gen. Johnson is a Gordonsville.
A refugee who came in today reports that one thousand Union
men in Rockham county have taken to the mountains at Elk river on the Blue
Ridge with a determination to resist, with arms, their impressments by the
rebels. This statement is believed. Gen. Jackson threatens to subdue them by
force, which they determine to resist.
The forces in front of Fremont are retreating towards the
Shenandoah mountains.
– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, p. 4
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