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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Important from Mississippi sound — large Lincoln force on Ship Island — immense reinforcements expected. (search)
Important from Mississippi sound — large Lincoln force on Ship Island — immense reinforcements expected.
The following statement appears in the New Orleans Delta, of the 15th instant, and is vouched for by a most distinguished citizen of that place:
December 14, 1861. My Dear Friend:
--I have just seen Captain Le the Lincoln fishing-smacks the Confederates have captured off Cedar Keys, belonging to Key West.
Capt. Legarde reports that a large number of troops arrived at Ship Island on the 4th.
The steamship Constitution arrived with the 17th and 26th Massachusetts regiments, and a regiment from Connecticut--2,600 men in all; and on th ssachusetts and one from Maine.
The forces on the island, when he left, were about 8,000 men, and 30,000 more troops were expected in a few days.
Those now on Ship Island are under command of Col. Phelps, he being the senior colonel, and is said to be a rank Abolitionist.
The Quartermaster-General is Col. Butler, brother to