Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-06-03
From Corinsh.
=, OUkINTH, MAY q
Especial to the Chicago Tribune.l


Yesterday morning our reserve division ~.r.
brought up and our entire front moved forward.
the men having two days Iations in their hayer,
| sacks.
During the day We kept up q tremendous can.
non:ding, Smelling the woods furiousiy. Thercbels
hardly showed themselves, butrcplied freely with
a few shotslas n light.
| Wc threw up breastworks along our entire
front, and sept on our arms within 900 yards Of
| tee enenys brcastworks. At o'clock this morn.
Ing General Pope entered Corinth without the
slightest oppo'ition and took possession at the
| di erent road, met General Nelson, and surren
dered the town to him. There iwere no inhabi-
tants remaining except tho women, children and
| old men.
lhe rebels succeeded in carrying away every
| tning except lew provisions which, with the
warehouses, we're bnniel before wenarrived. They
| took every invalid from the hospital. and every
| 10 ter from the post Office. They did not leave q
single gun, and had been mov, away troops for
more tn an six days, and stores for more than two
weeks.
The most ofthe troops have gono towards Grand
junction. Inc rabsl rear guard, unde- Bragg,
To- 900 strong. marched SOUTHWARK at midnight
citizens assert positively that Beauregard was
there IN person, and left with the army. All con-
cur that there were never more than 60 900 trool
there at once, and usually much less.
ine rebel fosttcatons were five miles long,
to the Mobile Ohio Railroads, but they were
muca weaker than we supposed. They could have
Doen carrl by storm any time.
The few prisoners We have are deserters from
the rebel rear gus4l.
There is great modification in our army. I
have these details from one who was there in
person.
From Gen. Halleck's Headquarters.
HALLKcK's 1iEApQUARTlRs, Naval
Our cavalry found all the tents Of the enemy
standing. They tc0k hundreds of barrels OF beef
and 5000 stand Of arms in a large oncampent OF
me Mobile q Uhio Railroad, said to belong to
frice and VanDorn's forces, who left on Thursday
nlght. The rebels are being brought in in squads
OF ~ and 80. Our cavalry found tho rebels on
several roads in strong position, with artillery
supported by infantry The rebels commenced
moving their sick last Monday.
beauregard and Bragg were at Corin:h on Thurs
day afternoon.
The recently pub ished card Of the army news
paper corresponi tent, gives an erroneous impress
Ion mat zen. ffaleck has prohibited the reporter
OF the New ork Assoc ated Press with this arny
from telesraphng anything, evon when not con-
tTaoand, except such items as he approves. Gen
Halleck has never used such influence over the
Associated Press dispatches and crosses only such
items as are Of a contraband character
HALLECK's HEADQUARTERs June 2
Residents say that the rebels burned Cypress |
Crock Railroad Bridge by msapprehc cnsi on, caus.
ing the destruction OF locomotives, and a. |
many trains ioadei with commis ary and quarter.
masters stores. This account. for tho smoke seen
" the signal corps from the tree tops.
Col Elliott and command urned after dc stroy-
ing the Mobile Ohio Railroad in several places.
and large amount Of stores He captured three
pieces OF artillery. thirty mounted prisoners, and
about go infantry, with but litfe loss on our |
side. be fould $500 sick and wounded at |
Memphis refugees report tn at all the new spapcrs
have been removed TO Granada, Miss |