CAIRO, May 14. We have received the following dispatches from our correspondent, written just as the mail tug was leaving the Mississip...

MR. EDITOR:   In order that the following report be rightly understood by your readers, it may be necessary to say that, though the whole i...

. . . arrived by boat last night, having in charge his brother, Geo. W. Simmons, a member of Co. E, 11th Regiment, who was severely wounded...

HAMBURG, Harding Co., Tenn., April 25. FRIEND SANDERS:   When I left Davenport I promised to write you occasionally.   I have kept my w...

FORT HOLT, Ky., Jan. 23, 1862 The 7th Regiment reached Cairo last Saturday evening.   We found Cairo one big, deep quagmire.   Mud, mud...

CAIRO, March 17. – The town in full of rumors from below, but there is little, if any, that can be called reliable.   Mostly all are expec...

In Mound City Hospital, 18th inst., of Camp Dysentery, HOWARD D. LEONARD, aged 20 years, of Co., K, 14th Regiment Iowa Volunteers, son of ...

. . . in our absence, from Dr. Hughes, of Keokuk, just returning from a visit to our sick and wounded Iowa soldiers in hospital in Paducah,...

CAIRO, Feb 26. – The casualties at the battle of Fort Donelson will run up much higher than was first supposed.  At least five hundred were ...

C. DUNHAM – Sir:   We send you a list of the soldiers now at Mound City Hospital – Iowa troops, wounded at Fort Donelson.  Those marked * ca...