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The Daily Dispatch: April 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
from the battle of Shiloh, near Corinth.--What we gather from passengers who left Corinth on Tuesday morning is somewhat vague. The victory of the Confederates on Sunday is fully confirmed. Our troops pursued the routed Federal army to the Tennessee river, where great numbers of them were drowned endeavoring to embark upon their gunboats. One of their transports, it is said, was capsized, consigning its human freight to a watery grave. Our army slept in the enemy's tents on Sunday night. some 64,000 men, and ours 35,000. We took between 6,000 and 7,000 prisoners and all the batteries of the enemy on sunday. The fight on Monday was furious and cooperate for a time; the right wing of our army forced a whole brigade into the Tennessee river, Leesburg, but our left wing was overpowered with overwhelming numbers and had to fall back, when our whole army was ordered to retreat, without being pursued. In this retreat we lost some four pieces of artillery and all the commissary st
The Daily Dispatch: April 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], Russell's last letter to the London times. (search)
ates and cities into the Union. The possession of Tennessee to be Disputed. The Confederate Government is by no means prepared to yield Tennessee. It is true, Nashville has gone, and the Cumberland river is in Federal hands, and the Tennessee river is almost theirs; but the Confederate Government has called out twenty-two regiments in the State itself, and West Tennessee is loyal to the core to the cause of secession. The defence increases in desperation as the Federals gain ground. South means. of cotton planters have been held with a view, it is said, to an organized incaudfarism of any cotton which may be in danger of falling into the enemy's hands. However, a Federal officer who proceeded some days ago up the Tennessee river as far as Eastport, in the State of Mississippi, below Florence, he found "Union sentiment" strongly prevalent along the banks, and "Union sentiment" may mean twenty-five cents a pound for cotton. It is significant that he could get so fa