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The Daily Dispatch: April 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], Russell's last letter to the London times. (search)
shville has gone, and the Cumberland river is in Federal hands, and the Tennessee river is almost theirs; but the Confederate Government has called out twenty-two regiments in the State itself, and West Tennessee is loyal to the core to the cause of secession. The defence increases in desperation as the Federals gain ground. About the surrender of Fort Donelson. The surrender of Fort Donelson is no exception to that remark. The causes which led to it yet remain in obscurity. General Buckner's statement, that he found himself unexpectedly in command, does not throw any light on the other circumstances which induced him to follow Mack's example at The brute could not have been in want of ammunition nor of food, for it is said that stores of both were found inside of the works. I have spoken to an English gentleman who conversed with many of the prisoners at Chicago. They told him that fighting all day and inflicting a tremendous loss on the enemy, they lay on their arms t