Gen. Pillow has advanced, and occupied Columbus, Ky. He was
ordered, by telegraph, to abandon the town and return to his former position.
Then the order was countermanded, and he remains. The authorities have learned
that the enemy occupies Paducah.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 79
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