The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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The News from east Tennessee.

As yet we have no clear statement of the result at Fort Donelson from our own side.--The telegraph has given nothing directly to the press, and no mail has come through from Nashville since the great battle. This is owing, no doubt, to the complete monopoly of the railroad to transport troops and stores. Neither mails nor passengers have come through. We publish a statement this morning by telegraph from Augusta, made to the press of that city by a Lieutenant who was in the fight at Donelson. This statement rather discourages the hope that the loss in prisoners is very much exaggerated by the Yankees. The disaster in this respect must be very great. Another terrible lesson against cooping up men to defend positions not properly fortified.

We are yet unable to announce positively that Buckner is not a prisoner. Floyd is the only General in whose escape all accounts concur.