Litchfield enquirer., 1862-04-10
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FROM Ueh banks department we learn tha detached parties of the rebels were still in th vicinity of Edenburg. On Friday they unmask ed battery upon our right wing near the town but they were shelled out in short order Ou1 l advance batteries command the elevations be yond Stony Creek, and are unassailable. by tn, enemy. The position was selected by Genera Banks under a hot fire of the enemy. There i. rumor that part of the rebel Jackson's fore, have refused to servo him longer, and have in trenched themselves in Page and Rocking ghau Counties, and deied him. ... CAIRO, April 5.-The firing at Island No. 1t last night disabled the floating battery of tht rebels. One shell struck directly in it, killing three men and disabling it so that it foatet down towards the foot of the Island. The firing to-day has been more active, and has done goot execution. ssz .4 F
 A messenger from New Madrid this evening reports that the rebels planted a battery last night opposite Point Pleasant, and this morning battery was silenced by our guns, and a ware. house on the Kentucky shore set on fire by our shells Its contents were consumed. No casu- alites on our side reported.
 The loss of the rebels is unknown, but sever al must have been killed. s.--+z l..
 THE Union army under Gen Grant is report ed to be within six miles of Corinth, where the rebels are concentrated in force. All the mem- bers of Gen. Grants staff absent at Cairo have been ordered to report for duty forthwith. Gen. Buell., who was on the line of the Nashville and Decatur Railroad, was soon expected to unite his command with Gen. Grant.
 MOBILE advices to the 4th inst. state that on Wednesday two thousand of the federal troops landed at Biloxi and cut the telegraph line be- tween Mobile and New Orleans. message from Montgomery reports that Gen. Buelrs army had reached Savannah, on tho Tennessee river from Columbia. .= .fs
 THE Union gunboats Cairo, Lexington, and Taylor, and the transport Tigress, have made a reconnaissance to Florence, Alabama No re- sistance was encountered on the way, and only one fort was discovered, mounting nine guns, that had been abandoned s.EF e-es-s
 A BULLETIN from Secretary Stanton estab- fishes two new military Departments-onc con sisting of that portion of Virginia and Maryland Ridge, to be called the Department of the She nandoah, under command of Major General Banks; and the other, consisting of that DOT ton of Virginia east of the Blue Ridge and west Richmond Railroad, including the District of Columbia and the country between the Potomac and the Patuxent, to be called the Department of the Rappahanock, under command of Major Gen Mcdowell.
 LATE adyices from the Virginia side of the Potomac below Washington, represent that a stroeg Union sentiment has been disclosed among the people of Northumberland and Westmore- land Counties, which would be openly manifest ed could they be assured of protection It IS also ascertained that much dissatisfaction ex- ists among the rebel troops, and that many oi them are anxious to make their escape. It is reported that Fort Lowtrie, Q rebel earthwork, on the Rappahannock, mounting twelve guns, has been abandoned that the river, for . distance of forty miles from it's mouth, is clear of rehels in force. The truth of this report will doubtless soon be ascertained. F 's.sF ss
 DEsEnrEns from Beauregard's army at Corinth .report great dissatisfaction among the rank and file. On March sl, Gen. Grant transferred his headquarters from Savanna to Pittsburghs
 THREE new regiments of J aion men rom East Tennessee are in process of fformationn near Cum gbsrland Gap sOne Of tlsm will be commanded by son of Gov. JohpsoR, 9.'A 'sf.s'es @.-A3 8