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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Reported advance of the enemy on the Peninsula. (search)
artillery, all that were in the fight. This letter also says that Gen. Smith captured two thousand prisoners and thirty-six guns in a fight on the 9th. Still another letter says: We get all sorts of reports from the front. The latest is that Gen. Smith whipped the rebels, taking two thousand prisoners and eighteen guns. The expedition is no doubt broken up, and our troops are falling back. Gen. Banks is mentioned as having been on the field on the 8th. Cairo, April 20.--Information obtained from reliable sources confirms the statement of the Chicago Journal's Red river letter of the 10th inst, concerning the battle of Pleasant Hill on the 8th, that account being mainly correct. Our loss, however, was greater than therein stated. The fight wound up in the enemy being handsomely whipped, and driven from the field with a heavy loss. Deserters from the Yankee army — important letter from Gen. Wistar. Headquarters U. S. Forces, Yorktown, Va., Apr