THE CAMPAIGN IN ALABAMA: The Capture of Mobile and All Its Defences; Immense Captures of Artillery and Stores (4/24/1865)

[OFFICIAL] WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 22. To Maj.-Gen. Dix, New-York: In a dispatch, dated Mobile, 5 P.M., April 14, Maj.-Gen. CANBY reports as follows: We find in Mobile and its defences, on the west side of the bay, over 150 guns and a very large amount of ammunition and supplies of all kinds, and about one thousand prisoners. Inventories are now being taken, and a detailed report will be forwarded as soon as they are complete. The quantity of cotton will probably reach 3,000 bales, and there is a large amount of provisions and forage. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of...