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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Marmaduke Johnson or search for Marmaduke Johnson in all documents.
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The truth and rumors of yesterday.
A dispatch was received at the War Department yesterday, dated Cleveland, Tenn., Feb. 18th, which states that Generals Johnson, Pillow, and Floyd, with over 25,000 men. were holding Nashville, and that it was intended there to make a determined The Government stores in Nashville were regarded as safe.
This report comes from as agent of the Commissariat, who telegraphed the Government, in order to remove all anxiety in relation to the safety of vast quantities of subsistence stores accumulated at Nashville.
Later in the day it was reported that the Adjutant General had received dispatches confirmatory of the one above, from Cleveland.
Dispatches were also received at the war office which show that our loss by prisoners at Fort Donelson had been unwittingly increased by the addition of a cypher, during transmission over the wires, and instead of 15,000 captured, the Yankees succeeded in taking but 1,500 of our troops.
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