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The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], The production of saltpetre — something for every man to do. (search)
From Tennessee. The telegraphic reports in another column confirm the rumor published yesterday regarding the retreat of Gen. A. S. Johnston from Murfreesboro' to Decatur, Ala. The present position, being on the left bank of the Tennessee, is much more desirable than the previous one, as the enemy will be unable to get in his rear. The river is navigable to the Murcle Shoals for light draft gunboats, from which a force could be landed. It is necessary, therefore, to take a stand behind this point to prevent being surrounded. The strength of the Union feeling in Nashville seems to have been greatly over-estimated by the Yankees, and their soldiers express themselves both surprised and chagrined to find so little sympathy among the people. Every Union flag in the city — some two or three in number — have been raised by their own hand
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], The production of saltpetre — something for every man to do. (search)
hagrined on account of the little sympathy exhibited by the people. Capt. Morgan captured ninety of the Federals on Thursday night; and every night Federal pickets are either killed or captured. The Federal pickets now extend their operations to Franklin, twenty miles South of Nashville. A skirmish occurred at a locality called Savannah, near Eastport, on Friday last, in which 18 Federals, who had landed from their gunboats, were killed. Four were killed on our side. Gen. A. S. Johnston is falling back at a convenient point, so as to be in supporting distance of the Charleston and Memphis railroad. A battle is expected to take place at Boston mountain at a very early day. Memphis, March 4.--We have reports from New Madrid up to Saturday. The Federal army was then stated to be thirty miles off and advancing. Their advance guard was within five alles of New Madrid. No fight had occurred up to Saturday. The latest intelligence received from Nashville