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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1,296 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 888 4 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 676 0 Browse Search
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 642 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 470 0 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 418 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 404 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 359 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 356 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 350 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Stonewall Jackson or search for Stonewall Jackson in all documents.

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From Mississippi. Morton, Miss, July 21, via Montgomery, 23d. --No change in the situation of affairs to-day. The enemy are busily engaged in tearing railroad track between Beandon and Jackson. They burnt the depot at the latter place last night. Grant is evidently preparing, to fall back, as there is no water in front. [second Dispatch.] Morton, Miss, July 22. --Our army has gone in a permanent camp on Strong river.--Grant is reported to be shipping troops down the Mississippi, for the purpose of attacking Mobile. Lieut. Gen. Hardee has arrived, and takes command under Gen. Johnston. Pemberton's corps will be organized immediately and placed in the field. [Strong river is a small stream, which flows call of Morton in a circuitous south westerly direction, and empties into Pearl river about thirty miles south of Jackson.]
o be lighted up with the fitful flashings of the lurid flames that shot out from monster guns on land and sea. During this critical period the majority of our troops were driven to shorter beneath our bomb proofs and other works erected for their protection. But it was known to the officers commanding that such a demonstration on the part of the enemy was not without its object. As the shades of night began to fall the bombardment measurably relaxed. General Taliaferro, one of "Stonewall Jackson's veterans," now promptly ordered every man to the parapet, and they were hardly in their places before word was received that the columns of the enemy were advancing to the attack Cooped up as our troops had been all day, and breathing the impure air of a crowded bomb proof, the summons met with a cheerful response, and they quickly repaired to their respective positions. The lines of the Federals, several hundred yards distant, could now be descried advancing through the gloom, b