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Affairs at Mobile

--The following is an extract from a recent Mobile letter, published in the Savannah Republican:

‘ Considerable change in affairs since my last. New Orleans has fallen, and we expect the infernal Yankees over here daily, as they are reported to have sailed from that city a day or two ago. Some believe they have gone to Lake Pontchartrain; but as they are sneaks, we may find them upon us at any hour. We will give them a pretty good when they come, and I think somebody will be hurt on their side before they get up to our city. Gen. Forney, in command here, intends to defend the city. He is a fighting man, and an experienced military officer. He is not entirely well of a wound in the arm, lately received in a battle, while leading an Alabama regiment. Our gunboats are prepared, and keep up steam continually. So you may hear shortly of hot work, as well as went her, down here. We are not ‘ "Impregnable. "’ as other cities and fortified posts have been, but we can show a pretty good hand, and will fight.

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The Daily Dispatch: May 15, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. May 15, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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