A late dispatch on Saturday night from Cairo informs me that a dam at Alexandria has been constructed and our fleet is passing the falls. L...

April 5, 1862, — One of our boys has just returned from Madrid and says he saw our gunboat Cairo there. She slipped by the batteries at Isl...

From Washington Tribune Correspondence WASHINGTON, March 2. The House judiciary committee will tomorrow report favorably on the Senate bi...

Special to the Chicago Tribune. OFF FORT PILLOW, CAIRO, April 19, 1862. The Enemy’s gunboats have laid behind Criaghead Point for two or thr...

OFF FT. PILLOW, April 19. – Enemy’s gunboats have laid behind Crag Head point for two or three nights past, fearing an attempt on our part t...