Mobile Register
June 26, 1861
Page 1
FROM
KENTUCKY
LOUISVILLE,
June 24—Capt. W. J. Overton, of the Louisville Courier, leaves to-night for
Nashville to join the Blackburn Guards for Virginia. He will act as special correspondent of the
courier.
The
first southern mail since the 10th instant arrived to-day.
Speed
is instructed to forward letters from the South as unpaid letters to their
destination.
FROM
VIRGINIA
Fort
Monroe, June 24—Butler spent Sunday morning at Newport News, whence no
important movement is reported.
Private
Parker, of Vermont, a prisoner at Bethel, is exchanged; he reports good
treatment and says that L. W. Clark, of the New York Third Regiment, departed
the night before the Bethel fight and gave the Southerners full information.
[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]
