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ortant because it commanded the opposite shore in Missouri and was the gateway on the border of Tennessee. Two states of the Confederacy were therefore threatened by the anticipated movement of the enemy to get possession of Columbus. Major General Polk, therefore, crossed the state line, took possession of Hickman on September 3d, and on the 4th secured Columbus. General Grant, who took command at Cairo on September 2d, being thus anticipated, seized Paducah, at the mouth of the Tennessee River, and occupied it in force on the 5th and 6th. After the occupation, under date of September 4th, I received the following dispatch from Major General Polk: The enemy having descended the Mississippi River some three or four days since, and seated himself with cannon and intrenched lines opposite the town of Columbus, Kentucky, making such demonstrations as left no doubt upon the minds of any of their intention to seize and forcibly possess said town, I thought proper, under the plena