Posted on 03/31/2022 4:56:26 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
The Memphis Appeal, of the 19th inst., says:
"Our latest intelligence of the movements of the enemy is that a large force has been landed on the west bank of the Tennessee, at Chalk Bluffs, twenty-six miles from Corinth. At this point, it is said, they have thrown up defences of considerable strength and extent. They have also commenced the construction of a road in the direction of Corinth, seven miles of which have already been completed. Their force now concentrated on the river is variously estimated at from 40,000 to 60,000."
The Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate of the 19th says: "The enemy has about sixty-five transports in the Tennessee River, with troops which they are reported to have landed at Savannah, near Purdy, &c., threatening the Memphis and Charleston and Mobile and Ohio Roads. Gen. BRAGG commands our forces in that region.
From a gentleman who has just arrived from the Tennessee we have information of the further movements of the enemy up the Tennessee River. At Reynoldsburgh, Humphreys County, he witnessed the passage up of thirty-two Federal steamers, including one gunboat, Monday afternoon, and early in the evening fourteen more transports. Additional boats passed up on Tuesday, carrying cavalry, wagons, artillery, mules, &c. The number of vessels composing the last fleet was not known."
The editor of the Memphis Appeal writes:
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 12, 1862.
The rumor of the Federal gunboats landing at Eastport, reported in Memphis on Monday, seems to have been an error. They were said, however, to have appeared on the Tennessee below at Savannah to considerable force -- one report enumerated thirty-three gunboats and transports together. The people seemed to be free from panic or extraordinary excitement under the influence of this intelligence.
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