CAIRO, Jan. 29. – Dispatches receive3d here to-day from Cape
Girardeau, state that Captain Murdock arrived there yesterday, bringing 25
prisoners form Castor Creek. Also that
Major Herr, late of Jeff. Thompson’s command, arrived last with a flag of truce
from Thompson to arrange for an exchange of prisoners.
The 13th Missouri, Col. Wright, arrived here this p.m. from
St. Louis, and will go to Smithland at once.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 2
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