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The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
the offensive. Early in the week Beauregard and Johnston had information of the contemplated advance of the enemy as soon as a union of the forces under Buell and his front division, which was commanded in detail by Grant, Wallace, McClernand, Prentiss, and Smith, could be effected. To prevent this wholesale demonstration, it was determined to press the issue without delay. --Orders were published to our army to prepare three days rations, and put itself in light marching order; and on Saturd Prudently the information was kept from the army, and Gen. Beauregard assured the command-in- chief. So the fight went on until four o'clock, when the enemy were in full retreat towards the river and our forces were closing upon them. Gen. Prentiss had been captured, with some three thousand five hundred men, flag after flag was sent to the rear, and the ground was strewn with arms and munitions. By dark the Federals were under caver of their gunboats, and we could do no more than halt