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Making War in dead Earnest.

Cairo, February 14, 1862.
The following facts and correspondence show the exasperated nature of the war in these parts. Soon the cry will be: “No quarter!”

Col. Kellogg, commanding at Cape Girardeau, telegraphed to Acting Brig.-Gen. Paine, at Cairo, thus:

Yesterday (February eighth) several companies of our cavalry, with one company of Ross's infantry, scoured the country west, bringing in fifty prisoners. Our cavalry also encountered a large force of rebel cavalry, fifteen miles below Bloomfield. They succeeded in routing them, killing seven, wounding many, and taking twenty prisoners. We had two missing and one wounded. They found five bodies, known to be Union men, murdered.

W. P. Kellogg, Colonel Commanding. Gen. E. A. Paine, Commanding, Cairo.


Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.

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