Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-04-29
From Gen. HaIIeck's'Army.
Caro-, April q

VI <APih 81.
The steamer Mcclellan has arrived with
Pittsburg advices to P. NJ on Saturday.
On Thursday there was considerable
sharp skirmishing with the enomy, which
extended along our whole line, and which
threatened at one time to bring en- q gener>
al engagement.
Our artillery was ordered out, and Co. A
Chicago light artillery was sent to the
front, in anticipation of an attack By the
enemy.
During the skirmisb between the adj
vanced lines portion of McCook's divis>
ion was sent out to make reconnaissance
on the Purdy read, towards the rebel
eneampment, where it was reported Gen.
Bragg was posted with strong force.
a few miles from cur army, our troops
suddenly came upon the camps Of three
rebel regiments. The rebels fed at our
approach, abandoning their camps, arms.
and equipments. Flfty-nine prisoners
were captured, and. without attempting
to pursue the retreating rebels, our troops
satisfied themselves with burning the en-
campment.
The arms that were left behind were
found 10 be Enfield rifles Of late mauulac-
ture.
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be mentioned that 4S Voluntarily surrend
cred and were anxious to enter our works.
| They had been impressed into the rebel
! service
They report that Beauregard is slowly
Withdrawing his force to Coriuth. aud that
a large portion Of bis army is now concen-
trated at jackson, Tenn, and at Memphis
1t is the programme 20 make stand at
! Corinth, and then, If necessary, fall back
or Memphis and jackson, between which
points there is free railroad communica~
ton.
As stated previously, every able bodied
man is being forced into the service and
the rebel army is heing daily augmented by
the arrival Of fresh levies.
The new recruits are drilled eight hours
every day.
The skermishes on Thursday " ere renew
ed on Friday ami Saturday.
On Friday there was h steady fall of rain
and the roads, which were improving,
were again in an unfavorabIs condition.
Our army has been slowly advancing
despite the mud and our picke,s are now
full eight miles from the river
Gen Pope has advanced his division
which was stationed at Hamburg, dis
tanee Of FIVE miles further into the interi-
or.
Turchin's Brigade of Mitchell's Division
has evacuated Tuscumbia, and is posted Of
Huntsville.
Southern papers are received at the head
quarters of Halleck, almost daily and
though they are silent respecting Southern
military movements, full information can
be gained from them in relation TO the pop
uar sentiment
Among other items Of importance, is the
announcement that the operations Of the
railroad between New Orleans and Mem
phis have been almost totally suspended by
a crevasse near the former place, BY which
thousands Of dollars worth of property has
been destroyed. The country is submerged
for miles
AT the late battle Captain Ross, Of the
Second Michigan battery was captured BY
the enemy. The officers and all the pri-
Yates, except seven, were taken prisoners
The country has suffered great loss in
the death of one of its ATTEST servants, Ma
jor General c. f. Smith, who died at Swan
nah at four o'clock on Friday p. NJ. after a
lingering illness of three weeks. A few
days previous to the battle Of Pittsburg he
was attacked q recurrence Of his old disease
contracted during the Mexican war, which
has at last proved fatal His body was
brought bither to day by the steamer
Mcclellan, and is now on it's way to St
Louis, where it will be inferred with militia
~ honors in receiving vault The re
mains will then be taken to the East,
where the friends Of the deceased reside.
At the time Of her husband death, Ms.
Smith was on her way to attend him in his
last moments.