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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], "What are we fighting For?" (search)
a, makes the following report: Large quantities of ammunition had recently been received at Memphis from New Orleans, and the defenses of the city were proceeding vigorously. There are ten thousand troops at Memphis; all the approaches to the city, both on the river and on the railroads, are guarded by troops and fortified by batteries. There is no railroad from Cairo to Columbus, Kentucky--twenty miles. At Columbus there is a regiment of Kentucky riflemen, one thousand men. At Hickman, Kentucky, about twenty-five miles further down the river, a railroad commences, which runs to Union city, Tennessee. At Hickman there is a battery of small field-pieces, and five companies of Kentucky soldiers — say 500 men. At Union city there is another battery of small field- pieces, and three companies of Tennessee troops. At Osceola, Arkansas, on the right bank of the Mississippi, 95 miles north of Memphis, there are several batteries on a high bluff, and these are the first really form