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The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Our army correspondence. (search)
e, however, subsequently made their escape. It is believed that the Valley is now free from the presence of Yankees. The raiding party that went lately down to Brook's Gap was the same that entered Winchester and were driven out a short time before. They will probably keep a small force in the Lower Valley to prevent rabbis on the Baltimore and Ohio Road, which the Yankees, it is understood, have retired and put in running order. Gen. Laboden has been made a Major General, and Col. Jackson, who has operate so successfully in Western Virginia recently, has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. The promotion of General William Smith Governor elect, to Major-General, was doubtless for the purpose of assigning him to the command of the Department of Henrico, vice Gen. Eliezer, relieved at his own request. The latter will probably be returned to active duty in the field and assigned to the command of a division of the army, monitor more of which there are vacancies t
The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Events of the War. (search)
ounts from Mississippi. We have two accounts from Mississippi, one from the New Orleans (Yankee) Era, dated the 6th, and the other from a Confederate letter dated Brandon, Miss, the 8th inst. The Era has conversed with an informant just from Jackson, and says: For twelve days he has been travelling in a carriage through the country between Jackson, Miss., and Port Hudson, and during the whole of that time he has not seen or heard of a single rebel soldier. Not even a guerilla can be remarked, "Bill, I'd like d — d well for the old woman to have'em, but don't see how I'm to send 'em." "Send 'em by mail, Tom," remarked the other. "D — n it, 'twould cose a quarter." So saying he coolly proceeded to tear them up. Poor old Jackson! with all her short comings, one cannot look upon the ruins of what was once the capital of the proud old State of Mississippi without turning away sick at heart at the sight of what was a beautiful inland city. On every side, where once stood