Columbus is to be evacuated. Beauregard sees that it is
untenable with Forts Henry and Donelson in possession of the enemy. He will not
be caught in such a trap as that. But he is erecting a battery at Island No. 10
that will give the Yankees trouble. I hope it may stay the catalogue of disasters.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 112
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