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The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 20 (search)
nati, Feb. 12 --The special dispatches to the Gazette and Commercial, dated Fort Henry, 10th inst., give the following account of the expedition up the Tennessee river after the capture of Fort Henry. The gunboats Lexington, Conestoga, and Tyler gave chase to the rebel steamer Dunbar, and reaching the Memphis and Louisvi, and it is supposed she escaped by running in some creek during the night. The gunboats then went on to Florence, Alabama, the head of navigation, on the Tennessee river, a distance of 250 miles from Paducah. Everywhere along the river they were received with astonishing welcome by numerous Union families in Southern Tenn Commodore Foote has sent to Chicago for 200 men for the gunboats, and says if they are furnished speedily he will attack Columbus, take it, and sweep the Tennessee river. Brigadier-General Stone was arrested in Washington, on Sunday morning at 2 o'clock, by a posse of the Provost Marshal's force, and sent to Fort Lafayett