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rders were received from headquarters, by the officers commanding the various regiments, to be ready at 4 o'clock with two days rations.--The Thirtieth regiment, Colonel Fouke, and Thirty-first, Col. Logan, embarked on the steamer Aleck Scott, Capt. Riley; the Twenty-second regiment, Col. Dougherty, the Twenty-Seventh, Col. Buford, and the Seventh lowa, Col. Lanman, upon the Memphis and Montgomery; Taylor's battery of artillery and a battalion of Col. Noble's cavalry, also the Centralia cavalrynd in about an hour the firing commenced from the gun-boats and was returned by the enemy from a battery on the Iron Bluffs. No damage was done to the boats, although the balls passed over them. I was standing on the deck of the Scott, with Captain Riley, watching the battery with a glass, when they threw a shell which passed directly over our heads and landed about three-quarters of a mile above the Scott, but did not explode. Mr. Reeder, the clerk, sent some men for it, and they found it b