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The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], The late raid (search)
From the United States. We have the following summary of news from the Baltimore American, of the 27th inst: Dispatches from Cairo state that Gen. Herron's troops are on an expedition up the Red river. Over 100,000 bales of the rebel Government cotton have been captured near Natchez. Gen. Grant and staff were at Memphis. Gen. Ewing returned to Kansas city on Monday from the pursuit of Quantrell's guerillas. He is estimated to have had three hundred men at Lawrence.--They disbanded at the head of Grand river, scattering in every direction.--The pursuing forces divided accordingly, and continued skirmishing was going on. About seventy of the guerillas had been killed so far as heard from. Lane is organizing a force, and says he will go into Missouri early in September. The chiefs of the Delaware, Sacs, and Fox tribes have offered their services to Lane. Over one hundred rebel sympathizers have been killed in Cass county, Missouri, and their houses burnt.
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], The fight in Greenbrier. (search)
From the Southwest. Jackson, Miss., Aug. 28. --There is no further news about the Yankees towards Raymond. The report is supposed to have originated from seeing a Yankee wagon train east of the Big Black engaged in hauling cotton to Vicksburg. [Second Dispatch.] Jackson, Aug. 28. --Gen. Grant has issued the following order for the government of negroes, bearing date August 10th: 1. Camps will be established for such free negroes as are out of employment. 2. Officers of the army will superintend the camps and rations be drawn from the subsistence department. 3. All negroes will be employed in every practicable way to avoid becoming a burden to the Government. Planters and others may hire them on giving assurance to the Government that they will not be run out of the lines. 4. The Provost-Marshal is to see that they are employed by some white person, or sent to the camps. 5. Citizens may make contracts with negroes for labor by the month or
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], The United States army. (search)
the 17th infantry; and Maj Gen Doubleday, who was at the first bombardment of Fort Sumter, ranks only as a Major in the 17th infantry. Meade, Pope, Hooker, Rosecrans, and McDowell, are Brigadiers in the regular army, and Fremont, McClellan, Grant, and Halleck, are Major Generals. Of the twelve General officers who were in the regular army in August, 1862, two--Gen'ls Sumner and Mansfield — are dead, and their places were filled by the appointment of Gen'ls Hooker and Meade, the former from the volunteer force and the latter from the engineers; and two--Gens. Wool and Harney--have been retired from active service. Their places are not yet filled. Maj Gen U S Grant, of the volunteer army, was rewarded for his success at Vicksburg by being appointed Major Gen in the regular army, to fill the original vacancy in that grade remaining out of the four created during the present war. One Major Generalship (vice Wool retired) and two Brigadier Generalships (one vice Harney retire