...dence seemed to be shielding them, during their whole perilous journey; for the destruction of this bridge would have been, in all probability, fatal to the whole expedition. At ten o'clock P. M. Colonel Blackburn , of the Seventh Illinois, was sent forward with two hundred men to Decatur, which place he passed through at four A. M., (of the twenty-fourth,) and captured two trains of cars and two locomotives at...