Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-08-11
Gen. Pillows ExpeditiOn-What the
Cairo Hessians think of IL.

Cairo Hessians think of IL.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
writing from Cairo on the Sth inst, says
The movement into Missouri began with
the landing and encampment of the troops
that came down with General Fremont, but
more decisive move was that of yesterday,
when the Nineteenth Regiment, under Col.
Turchn, and the Eighteenth, under Col
Lawler, took up their line of march for the
interior
The Nineteenth, it is understood, goes to
Norfolk, eight miles below, and the Eigh-
teenth to Charleston, thirteen miles out on
the Cairo and Fulton Railroad. These regi-
ments form the advance of the grand army
that within very short time will be moving
against Pillow and his rebel minions.
Since the military aces sion at Birds POiLt
there is no fear OF an attack from the rebels.
They will have enough to do in the watching
their chance for escapa nd providing against
annlhllatlon. 1t seems to me the crazlest
thing that even Pillow was ever guilty Of
this invasion of Missouri. L cannot see how
he can possibly escape destruction. There
is no chance for his reinforcement except by
the river, and am of opinion there are not
many more troops to come from Tennessee.
McCullough's command is far to the west
ward, aud between them runs the spreading
waters of White river, with its swamps and
L was familiar with that country, and know
at that time, from the border of Missouri
northward until at point about as far up as
Cape Girardeau, there was no wagon way
across those swamps.
Now Pillows PLAZA of movement did not
likely contemplate the meeting of heavy
Federal force at or below Cape Girardeau,
endangering his communication with McCul-
Tough by way OF the Fulton Swamp cross
ing
L should like the reader to clearly under
stand the position of affairs in Southeast Mis-
souri,; SO take your map and look at the
boundaries. You will notice the winding
line of White river. Now for six or eight
miles each side that river. for upward of a
hundred miles north of the Missouri line,
there is nothing but wild waste of impassa.
BILE swamp land. There are no roads cut
through, and no private enterprise equal to
the task of cutting them. The first crossing
of any consequence is Gas | have stately at
the point where the road from Cape Girar-
deau to Fulton, Arkansas, strikes the river.
Pillow and his 10000 followers are en-
camped at New Madrid, this side those vast
swamps and below our army. He cannot
pass northward, by the Cape Girardeau road,
no,c; week ago he might have done so, for
our army did not then command its passage.
They were then acting on the defensive, and,
daily expecting an attack, kept close within
our Notifications.
To-day we are pushing the war into At
rica.n Our troops are at Norfolk, and our
troops are at Charleston, to his right and to
his front.
He will not be attacked, however, you may
be very certain, until there ia such force
in the field as will render success doubly sure.
/ have no positive information-nobody
has-as to what are the plans of Gen. Ere
mont. He was here on Friday night and the
fore part of Saturday, all the time working
busily as beaver and staying on board his
flag ship'-the Alton. Saturday afternoon
the debarkation of the troops took place, and
in the evening the whole fleet went up the
river.
Where they are going, or when they are
to return, do not know, but 1 am silly in
formed lit won't do to tell how confidential
ly) that ten or twelve thousand more troops
are to be here this week. They are to come
by rail and boat, am told, from the West
and from the East.
There is nothing to write about in connec-
ton with Camp Defiance. The troops are all
paid off, and the three months men gone
The different regiments are rapidly filling
up"
Scouts report the woods of Ballard county
opposite here in Kentucky, as swarming with
armed men since the incoming of our new
troops. They are continually coming and
going, and undoubtedly in hourly communi-
cation with the Pillow army at New Madrid.
Every now and then squads of them will
come out upon the river bank in full view of
this side; but there is no help for it; we dare
not invade the "sacred soil' for their cap
ture.