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The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
ct nothing in deciding the great question of the war. The heart of the North is in the West. Thence come its armies, there it has all at stake, and there lies all its weakness. More profoundly impressed with the force of these considerations than we can be, its preparations are commensurate with the magnitude of the interests at stake. Its army of a hundred and twenty thousand men, under Buell, south of Louisville; its grand flotilla of shell- proof vessels, rafts, and flats collecting at Cairo, with land forces in proportion for a descent of the Mississippi; are but a part of the grand programme. They are making an equally vigorous demonstration from the South. The rendezvous of ships and troops at Ship Island are part of the grand combination; and if news does not speedily reach us by telegraph of its taking some other destination, the inference will be strong that Burnside's expedition is intended also for operations against New Orleans. Whether it be from the direction of Sh
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Letter from the Gulf shore. (search)
The St. Louis Republican, of the 11th inst., has a dispatch from Washington announcing that Senators Johnson and Polk, of Missouri, have been expelled from the Federal Senate, by a unanimous vote. A special to the St. Louis Republican, from Cairo on the 9th inst, says that the great expedition will be ready to start to-morrow. The fleet, it is understood, will ascend the Tennessee river some distance; but its final destination is not known. Another dispatch; dated Cairo, 10th inst.,Cairo, 10th inst., says several steamers, conveying part of the troops forming the present expedition, left this afternoon, and landed troops at Fort Jefferson, and then returned, but will go down in the morning and convey the rest of the troops to Fort Jefferson, a point on the Kentucky shore, five miles below Bird's Point. The Cavalry had previously been taken across to Fort Holt, and will join them in the morning from Bird's Point. Considerable numbers of Regiments will be taken at Paducah — about 600 t