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The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], The generous foe we fight — Yankee Estimate of Southern ladies. (search)
, Jan. 30, and addressed to "Dr. Darrah, Fort Henry, Col. Drake's regiment," has the following important items of information: F. G. Enochs got home from Jackson, and brings very bad news concerning the condition of our Southern Confederacy. He says Col. Blithe was sent down to Jackson by Gen. Polk to inform the LegislatuJackson by Gen. Polk to inform the Legislature of the condition they were in, and their danger at Columbus, in order that the Legislature might inform the people of Mississippi. Generally they (rebels at Columbus) could not give the people information of their condition through the papers, because they would give it to the North. They have only 12,000 men at Columbus, and to contend against. In a few days there will be a call for 20,000 troops in this State, the time of 60-day troops having nearly expired. J. M. Steele was at Jackson, Tenn., the other day, and was ordered to Columbus — he had but eight men, the balance all being sick. He sent the eight men and staid home with the sick. J. C.