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, we make up the following additional list of casualties among our troops engaged in the battles of Saturday and Sunday last, near this city: List of casualties of the First Virginia regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Skinner, in the engagement of May 31. Company C.--Private Tim Purcell, killed, and buried on the field. Company B.--Captain T H Davis, wounded in left arm; Lieutenant F M Mann, seriously in three places; Corporal Straum, killed, and buried on the field; Privates William Carsing: E T Stephens. Company L.--Killed: Corporal J H Slaughter. Wounded: Sergeant Ed Martin; Privates C T Wilkinson, W H Hicks, and G M Smith. W. A. Forbes, Col. Comd'g. R. C. Bell, Adjutant. Casualties in 19th Georgia on the 31st May. Killed: Company A, none; company B. none; company C. none; Company D, none; company E, none; company F, Capt Aug. H Black, Privates W W H Bridges, W C Buise; company G, private Jonathan S Gray; company H, none; company I, none; company
Address to the army of Richmond. The President has issued the following address to the army: I render to you my grateful acknowledgements for the gallantry and good conduct you displayed in the battles of the 31st May and 1st inst., and with pride and pleasure recognize the steadiness and intrepidity with which you attacked the enemy in position, captured his advanced entrenchments, several batteries of artillery, and many standards, and everywhere drove him from the open field. At a part of your operations it was my fortune to be present. On another occasion have I witnessed more of calmness and good order than you exhibited while advancing into the very jaws of death, and nothing could exceed the prowess with which you closed upon the enemy when a sheet of fire was blazing in your faces! In the renewed struggle in which you are on the eve of engaging, I ask and can desire but a continuance of the same conduct which now attracts the admiration and pride of the lo
From Vicksburg. Augusta, May 31. --The Jackson Mississippian, of the 29th, understands that a few shots were fired from the Yankee squadron at Vicksburg the previous night. No injury done.--On the 30th the bombardment was resumed. Last night it was supposed that no serious damage had been done. The best spirit prevails among the citizens and soldiers. An engagement had occurred near Grand Gulf, between one of our companies and the citizens and a force of the enemy. It is reported that sixty of the enemy were killed. The Vicksburg Whig reports that Captain Hoskin's battery opened effectively on the enemy's transports at Grand Gulf, causing a hasty retreat of the enemy, who subsequently shelled the town. They said that they were in no hurry about Vicksburg. Gen. Lovell has received an official dispatch, dated 28th, which says that two Federal officers and three men were killed at Baton Rouge. The enemy then shelled the city.--No one killed. Capt. Hoskins r