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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The war in the Southwest. (search)
n to history with the Waterloo, Austerlitz, Marengo, and Solferino of the Old World. But Halleck will soon have a fire in the rear as well as front. The dry season is said to have already commenced. The Tennessee has fallen several foot, its tributaries are rapidly drying, malarious influences are at work, and disease will quickly be doing its work among his troops as effectually as Confederate balls and steel. Affairs at Fort Pillow have been varied by a small battle between Jeff. Thompson and Commodore Montgomery, with his cotton fleet, and the redoubtable Yankee gun and mortar boats. We ran into some of each, and sunk one of both kinds. The cotton sides proved an effectual batter to the artillery of the enemy, although the "quarters" were so close that the fire of their guns actually touched our boats. Altogether, we lost two killed and eight wounded. The victory would have been made complete but for the unfortunate retreat of the Yankees to shoal water, where we