CAIRO, May 14.
The division of Gen. Mitchell has formed a junction with
Gen. Pope and now forms the extreme left of our line.
By the City of Memphis from Pittsburg, we learn there is
great dissatisfaction among rebel troops; some want to go home, their time of
enlistment being out, and others for being taken from their business by force.
No news from the fleet to-day. The weather is getting very hot here.
The City of Memphis has three hundred and fifty sic; they
are going to Keokuk under the charge of Dr. Turner.
Gen. Mitchell’s division has arrived at Farmington.
The story of the enemy’s lack for provisions, is denied by
the deserters, who say that there is plenty of subsistence at Corinth.
On Tuesday Gen. Pope moved forward his column to retake the
position lost in the skirmish of Friday last.
The result of this movement had not transpired at the time the steamer
left Pittsburg.
A lamentable casualty occurred on board the steamer
Gladiator. As the steamer was passing up
the Tennessee river, on Tuesday, with the 4th Minnesota regiment on board, just
above Paris Landing, her upper works gave way, killing five and injuring
several others.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, May 16, 1862, p. 2
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