HIGHLY IMPORTANT: Gen. Halleck Moving Toward Corinth; An Engagement Between the Advance Guards of the National and the Rebel Armies (4/27/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 4/27/1862

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ST. LOUIS, Saturday, April 26.

A special dispatch to the Missouri Democrat, dated Cairo to-day, say:

"Passengers who reached here this morning on the steamer N.W. Thomas, which left Pittsburgh Landing Thursday night, bring the highly important intelligence that an engagement took place on Thursday, between the advance guards of the National and rebel armies; that the rebels were driven back towards Corinth, and that Gen, Halleck was pushing his whole army vigorously forward."

A RECONNOISSANCE WITHIN SIX MILES OF CORINTH.

CHICAGO, Saturday, April 26.

A special dispatch from Cairo, to the Journal, says that a reconnoissance was made toward Corinth on Thursday, and when nine miles out they surprised a rebel camp, and advanced to Pea Ridge, within six miles of Corinth. They remained from 11 o'clock in the morning until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, but no signs of the enemy were seen.

Mr. STEVENSON, of Danville, Ill., who accompanied the reconnoissance, heard the constant rattle of cars and sounding of steam whistles towards Memphis, and thus got the impression that the rebels were evacuating Corinth for Memphis.

DEATH OF MAJ.-GEN. SMITH.

PITTSBURGH LANDING, Friday, April 25.

via LOUISVILLE, Saturday, April 26.

Maj.-Gen. C.F. SMITH died at [???], Tenn., at 4 o'clock this afternoon, of dysentery. He was taken sick shortly after the occupation of Savanna by the forces under him, and has been suffering and sinking slowly for some works, though his condition was not thought to be dangerous until the past week. His family have been notified of his death, and are on their way to Savanna.

Gen. T.U. SHERMAN arrived here yesterday.

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Highly Important: Gen. Halleck Moving Toward Corinth – 2-3
The Siege of Yorktown: The City Shelled by One of the Gunboats – 3
Operations Against New-Orleans: An Important Report from the Rebels – 3-4
From the South: Who Built the Rebel Ram Merrimac – 4
The Southern Indians – 4
News from Washington: Visit of the President to the French Frigate Gassendi – 5
Department of the Shenandoah: Movements of the Rebels under Jackson – 5
Editorial: The Decisive Battles of the War – 5-6
Editorial: The Southern Freed Negroes-Their Status Under the Constitution – 6-7
The Vagrant Rebels of Texas – 7
Humphrey Marshall in a Tight Place – 7
The Great Rebel Chains on the Mississippi – 7-8
Editorial: Death of Gen. C.F. Smith – 8
Editorial: Judges and Journalists-Judge Barnard as an Exterminator – 8
From Gen. Curtis’ Army – 8

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