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The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the West. (search)
t reinforcements. Our gunboats were near by, and had commenced a vigorous cannonade upon them with shells from the river, which was still progressing when our informant left. They had then made no response. We publish in another column the Federal account of a recent fight at Keltsville, Mo.--To show the falsity of the enemy's reports, we copy a special dispatch published in the Memphis Appeal. Fort Smith, Ark., March 8.--A scouting party of six hundred, under Cols. Greer and Simms, have just returned to their camps. The expedition moved to the rear of the enemy, and got in between their main body and their pickets. They captured and burnt two hundred and eighty of the enemy's wagons, taking between two hundred and fifty and three hundred mules and horses. They killed twenty-five of the enemy and took ten prisoners. They also captured a large amount of commissary and quartermaster stores. The attack on the Federal train was made at Keitsville, Miss