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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the West. (search)
"full of round and fury, and signifying nothing." Troops escaped from Island no.10 still continue to arrive here, and bring exciting accounts of their adventures by the way.--Some of them waded for miles up to their armpits in water; some have been drowned and last, and all the survivors are thoroughly worn down and exhausted by their terrible journey. The names of some of the officers captured are: Col. Henderson, Lieut. Col. T. Avery, (formerly member of Congress from this State,) Col. Baker, Col. Smith, and Lieut. R. D. Baugh, formerly Mayor of Memphis. A Surgeon of one of the Alabama regiments, who remained until Wednesday night, and then made his escape in the disguise of a farmer, informed me that he had a long in review with Gens. Pope and Payne, in the course of which the former stated that he should be in Memphis within ten days. He said also that he could have taken I and No. 10 several days before, but that the retarded the bombardment for the purpose of pro