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$100 reward.
--The subscriber, will pay the above reward for the apprehension and delivery at the 15th Alabama regiment, or the jail in Richmond, of two negro Boys, who made their escape from the above-named regiment, in the neighborhood of Rappahannock, about the 18th March, ult., and who are described as follows, viz: Jim, of light complexion, about 5 feet 10 inches high, stammers when spoken to, weights about 180 pounds, and has a large scar on his forehead Charles, of dark complexion, about 6 feet high, slender of stature, and of about 165 pounds weight.
Captain P. V. Guerry.
Lieut. E. P. Head.
Rappahannock, Va., April 8, 1862.
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The battle of Shiloh.[Special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Corinth, Miss., Tuesday night, April 8, 1862.
The grandest battle of the Southern Confederacy has been fought and won by Southern troops.
Hereafter Shiloh will be known as the Waterloo of the American continent.
The details of the fight are thus far too meagre, and the exaggerated rumors incident to occasions of this kind too conflicting to admit of a complete review of the battle; but I am enabled to give you a skeleton account which will convey a very good idea of the affair.
First, of the character of the country.
As a general thing it is low and flat, boggy, heavy, and covered with a thick undergrowth, with here and there a succession of forests and fields.
In the immediate vicinity of the battle- ground the surface is more undulating, and the various ridges afford natural entrenchments, from behind which the enemy was enabled to pour in a most destructive fire, and make a determined stand.
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