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The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War in the West. (search)
at 15,000 troops were at Cairo, and 30,000 near Paducah--50,000 from the Potomac are daily expected at one or the other of those points--Thirty-nine Federal transports were at Cairo on Wednesday, apparently ready to move troops in some direction, Gen. Bean regard is making prompt and energetic preparations for the enemy. No person is permitted to enter or leave Columbus. With regard to the situation of affairs in Nashville, the same paper says: It is said that Gen. Buell and Commodore Foots had arrived, and occupied Nashville on Wednesday last, with about 80,000 troops. Buell had crossed over from Edgefield with twenty-three regiments, and Foots had brought up nineteen transports and one gunboat from Fort Donelson, with about 10,000 men. The United States flag was immediately raised on the Capitol. But one Federal flag, it is said, was exhibited, and that was from the shop of a Yankee jeweller who was long suspected of disloyalty. The feeling in Nashville was strongly S