The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-21
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urnrnvrspoRo. March 16-From the
Atlanta Southern Confederacy OF tne
ntr1- Ins1-. / nave the foiiUwing news
frs b6N fh ffhs re5ahe ggssrt fgss
1 "a Of iirrftrutry, 10 regtrHenVs
and several battalions of cavalry and
batteries of artillery,
be an epidemic. ..,,
f.oro Hardvvilie. Announces that Captain
Michler of the 4th South Carolina regl-
ment, with a detachment OF his company
went on Hilton Head Island last nign''
to an observatory where YANKEE org
nal Corps were stationed, and without
firing gun, captured the whole force
doing watch, consisting OF one L!euten-
ant. one Sergeant and seven prIvates'
The prisoners have arrived at Hardy
Vile. No one was hurt on our SIDE All
quiet here. II 1ohn.
SON reviewed the army of Mobile yester'
dav Brig. Gen. D. W. Adams OF the
army of Tennessee had arrived here Ell
route to Join his command at Tullahoma
The Atlanta Confederacy OF the Is
has many details of the recent Union ez
. nedition in Northern Alabama.
Five of our gunboats reached floI
e ence on the 22d of February, lande
d and DESTROYED ferry boat. Some OF Tn
II hoats nroceeded to cambridge, at tn
- foot Of the shoals, and destroyed tn
ferry boats there also The rebel steam
Ill on 1unbar escaped over the shoals. La'
5, that evening the Union cavalry dashe
" ;nto the town. Here they were met al
rennlsed by about thirty of MAJOR ba
- ter's battalion. Falling back they reae
sc ed their main body consisting OF the IL y
his Missouri, 5th Ohio, two batteries OF Ii
lat nois. one company of Mississippi a
ire one of Alabamas all cavalry, win a q, D
Ior uIlVIng the rest out of town, r
,o1 rebel accounts say that our troops tn
plundered the town and threw into Or
ST. on all who demonstrated. Col. Cormv
the Yankee commander, took IN i
]e- quarters in the residence of DR.. L. Oh
~, holm. Col Florence NJ. Cormyn of h
81 10th Missouri, is from St. Louis and h
III, forces were the first brigade of Gener
or Frank Blair's division. Colonel Corn,
made an assessment of sums of fro
- $500 to 5000 upon the propertv of II
wealthy rebels. When the Yankees lie
n they took with them fifty bales of cotto
rs all the mules and horses they could fin,
ana sixty negroes. One hundred an
fifty prisoners in all were cantured
of the expedition At Frankfort thew a
s. rested the Confederate treasurer and ia,
- collector, and took from them severe
thousand dollars.
III The Charleston Courier of the At
3 inst has the following news: GENERA
d Lovall is about to be tried by court-mar
D. tlai for his alleged misconduct at New
Orleans. The Savannah News saw
, there are 13l Yankee vessels at Hiltor
l. Head, iron-clads, Is gunboats, and I2(
r transports. Averaging their entire feet
e transports and all, at 300 men, SAYS the
i force amounts to 10000 men. Maio,
): L. Pettlgrew, of Charleston, is dead
Union troops landed at Jacksonville
t FLORIDA, on the 10Th, just as the rebel
4 General FInnegan was preparing to Cd
J pose them. r
Gen. Pillow stated in speech in Ala
bama that Gen. Sherman recently wrote
: to him. Offering to return t. him all his
slaves if he would abandon the Confeder-
ate service
AUGUSTA, GA, March II
Governor Brown of Georgia will con-
vene the Legislature on the 25th inst.
and will recommend he enactment of
stringent provisions forbidding the cult
walton of more cotton than will be need
ed for seed. He will also recommend
the prohibition of the distillation of arti-
cles of food
JACKSON, Mss, March IL.
Two Federal dcserters arrived at Pa
nola to-day. They bring information
that sixteen transports and seven gun
boats are in the Tallehatchie River.
Their whole force is estimated at $4,000
These deserters came on the last boat
through Yazoo Pass, which was badly
damaged by suags and stumps We are
ready to give the Yankees on the Talla-
hatchie River warm reception at this
place.