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Gen. Forrest's expedition to Paducah.
[Official dispatches.] Demopolis, April 2d, 1864. To Gen. S. Cooper:
The following dispatch from Gen. Forrest has just been received. L. Polk, Lieut.-Gen.
Dresden, Ten., March 27.
via Okolona, April 2. --To Lieut.-Gen. Polk:--I left Jackson on the 23d ult, and captured Union City on the 24th with four hundred and fifty prisoners, among them the renegade Hawkins, and most of his regiment, about two hundred horses, and five hundred small arms.
I also took possession of Hickman, the enemy having passed it.
I moved North with Buford's Division, marching direct from Jackson to Paducah in fifty hours, attacked it on the evening of the 26th, drove the enemy to their gunboats and forts, held the town for ten hours, and could have held it longer, but found the small-pox raging, and evacuated the place.
We captured many stores and horses, burned up sixty bales of cotton, one steamer in the dry-dock, and brought out f
Northern papers of the 28th have been received, from which we make the following extracts:
The battle of Saturday--Another Dispatch from Grant.
Grant transmits to Stanton the following dispatch, summing up the results of the operations of last Saturday at Petersburg:
City Point, March 27--10:30 A. M. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
The battle of the 25th resulted in the following losses on our side:
Second Corps.--Killed, 51; wounded, 462; missing, 177.
Sixth Corps.--Killed, 47; wounded 401; missing, 30.
Ninth Corps.--Killed, 68; wounded, 338; missing, 506.
Our captures, by the Second corps, were 365; by the Sixth corps, 460, and by the Ninth corps, 1,049.
The Second and Sixth corps pushed forward and captured the enemy's strong entrenchment, and turned it against him, and still hold it. In trying to retake this, the battle was continued until eight o'clock at night, the enemy losing very heavily.
Humphreys estimates the l