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The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1863., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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berland river, about one hundred and twenty miles southeast of this place. Gen. Geo. B. Crittenden has assumed command of the remaining forces at Cumberland Gap, numbering, in addition to late reinforcements, a larger army than that of the late commandant. The statement as to the whereabouts of Gen. Zollicoffer will, it is believed, be found correct, as gentlemen direct from Barren county report his pickets as having advanced thirty miles from Banksville. A reliable citizen of Hardin county, who left Elizabethtown last Saturday, reports the larger portion of Gen. Buell's army, numbering full thirty thousand men, at Camp Nevin, near Nolin; where they are making extensive preparations for wintering. The railroad bridge over Nolin creek, lately destroyed by Southern-Rights citizens of Kentucky, and afterwards rebuilt under direction of Gen. Roussean, was washed away last Friday, the creek, owing to the recent heavy rains, having swollen to an unusual height. It is report
nd of the bridge, burning with them lots of camp equipage. J. N. Brown, formerly a Lieutenant in the navy, now signing himself C. S. N., had fled with such precipitation as to leave his papers behind. These Lieut. Com. Gwen brought away, and I send them to you, as they give an official history of the reallocating preparations on the Mississippi, Cumberland, and Tennessee. Lieut. Brown had charge of the construction of gunboats. At night, on the 7th, we arrived at a landing in Hardin county, Tennessee, known as Cerro Gordo, where we found the steamer Eastport being converted into a gunboat. Armed boat crews were immediately sent on board, and search made for means of destruction that might have been devised. She had been scuttled and the suction pipes broken. These leaks were soon stopped. A number of rifle shots were fired at our vessels, but a couple of shells dispersed the rebels. On examination, I found that there were large quantities of timber and lumber prepared for f
Western Dispatches. A special dispatch to the Mississippian, dated Panota, Miss., 12th inst., states that a report had just reached that place that Col. Roddy had crossed to the west side of the Tennessee river and captured the town of Hamburg, above Savannah, securing a large amount of bacon and other stores. Hamburg and Savannah are in Hardin county, Tenn. --The dispatch continues: Capt James Mathews, of De Soto, has brought intelligence, which may be relied on, that Gen. Marmaduke had fired on two downward transports a few miles above Helena, sinking one and capturing the other. A force of two regiments was sent up against him from Helena, which he completely routed, driving what of them was left howling back to their lines. Gen. Price is cutting out a road through the bottom for his artillery, &c., to Old Town, a point eighteen miles below Helena. A dispatch from Jackson to the Atlanta Appeal gives some extracts from late Northern papers: Burnside's corps