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The War in the West.
Affairs at Fort Pillow--news from Nashville — the mutiny at Clarksville — operations of the enemy in North Alabama--Island no.10, &c., &c.
[Special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Memphis, Tenn., Sunday, A. M. April 27, 1862.
Our latest news from Fort Pillow is by an arrival last night.
The enemy have in the vicinity seven gun and three mortar boats, and did have on Saturday twenty-six transports field with troops, but these were disappearing in the distance up the river, it is supposed for the purpose of throwing a body down the Tennessee and into Nashville, sundry disturbances having taken place there which make their presence necessary.
The distance of the gunboats from the fort is from three and a half to four miles, estimating the time between the flash of their guns and the bursting of their shells-say, about fifteen seconds. On Friday night they threw nine bombs after ten o'clock, but on Saturday their was no firing.
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