| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| April 21, 1862 |
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| The situation |
| From the North |
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| The progress of our army in Alabama
is most satisfactory. A few days ago we were enabled to announce the
occupation of Huntsville
by General Mitchell. To day we can report a most important advance
still farther South, on the authority of a dispatch received at the
War Department from Nashville, stating that on Saturdaymorning two
expeditions were started from Huntsville by railroad. One under
Colonel Sill, of the 33d Ohio, went east to Stevenson, the junction of the
{Nashville &} Chattanooga
with the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, at which point they seized
2,000 of the enemy, and returned without firing a shot. Colonel Sill
captured five locomotives and a large amount of rolling
stock. The other expedition, under Colonel Turchin, of the 19th
Illinois, went west {on the Memphis &
Charleston RR} and arrived at Decatur in time to save the
railroad bridge, which was then in flames. |
| Gen. Mitchell now holds 100
miles of the
Memphis &
Charleston
road, thus securing our position at Huntsville
and its vicinity. |
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