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From General Halleck's command. Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., May 1. --Gen. Halleck has telegraphed to Secretary Stanton that official information has been received of the defeat and rout of six hundred savages, under Colonels Coffey and Stainwright, at Neosho, Mo., by a hundred and fifty of the First Missouri Cavalry. Sixty-two prisoners and seventy horses were captured, besides a large quantity of arms. The body of Governor Harvey, of Wisconsin, who was recently drowned at Savannah, Tenn., has been found forty miles below, on the banks of the river. The weather is clear and pleasant, and there is a good prospect of the improvement of the roads. The river is falling. Gen. T. W. Sherman, late of Port Royal, has arrived here and taken command of a brigade. Pittsburg, Tenn., April 30--11 A. M. To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: Movements continue. Roads bad, and require a great deal of work for heavy trains. The reconnaissance to Purdy was su
of Base" Chattanooga, March 19. --No movement of importance is reported from the front. The enemy have fallen back from Murfreesboro', but our forces have not advanced as yet. The movement is thought to be a feint on the part of Rosecans. A gentleman from Kentucky says that reinforcements numbering 10,000, by way of Louisville, and five regiments from Clarksville, have been sent to Rosecrans. A Yankee column, 15,000 strong, is reported crossing the Tennessee river at Savannah, Tenn., to march by way of Huntsville. [Second Dispatch.] Atlanta, March 19. --A special dispatch to the Atlanta Intelligencer, dated Chattanooga, to-day, says: "The news of the evacuation of Murfreesboro' by the enemy is positively confirmed. Our pickets are four miles the other side of the town." It is reported that the object of the enemy in evacuating Murfreesboro' was a "change of base," making Columbia his left wing and extending toward the Tennessee river; and that Gra
Forrest's Movements. --A young gentleman just arrived at Staunton from Aberdeen, Miss. reports that the Yankee expedition which was to attack Forrest, came out from Memphis and made a demonstration in the direction of Aberdeen, and men turned suddenly and took the direction of Savannah, Tenn. He also reports that Gen. Forrest had concentrated his forces at Tupelo, in anticipation of this expedition, and as soon as he discovered the real design of the enemy, started in the direction of the river to cut him off. He is of the impression that it is a close race between Forrest and the Yankees, making for Sherman's rear.
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