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The Daily Dispatch: September 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Southern War news. (search)
Memphis Appeal, of Tuesday, learns that on Saturday last the camp at Columbus was favored with another visit from two or three of the Cairo gun-boats — the same that have recently been so attentive to us. They came within a couple of miles of Columbus, and, stopping at the head of the river above, commenced feeling for "masked batteries" by throwing random shells. Eighteen of these missiles were thrown at intervals of about ten minutes, one of which is alleged to have struck not far from Gen. Polk's headquarters, and the others seem to have been directed toward Gen. Thompson's camp, on the Missouri shore. After exercising their batteries some three hours, without damage to any one, these boats retreated toward their rendezvous, not a single gun on our side responding to their feint. It seems to us that a couple of masked or submarine batteries, placed four or five miles above on the river, would be a sufficient remedy for the insolence of the enemy as shown in these occasional