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The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gen. Johnston's movements — his next stand. (search)
discover from conversations with officers of Grant's army, no forward movement to any great extent is intended at present by the enemy. The march may be attempted as far as Meridian, unless the way is easy to come further. The army has been worn down by its labors in front of Vicksburg, and needs rest and recreation during the heat of the summer months. In the autumn, however, Mobile is to be the object of possession, and a movement will then be made toward it in some direction. Capt. McManus, a gentleman well known on the Mississippi river, reached the city yesterday direct from the Yazoo country and Canton, Miss., which latter place he left on Thursday of last week. He informs us that all the river fleet of steamers left in the Yazoo and its tributaries had been burned, either by the Yankees or our own people. The last of the boats, numbering some fifteen or twenty, were lately destroyed at Yazoo city, when that point was last evacuated. The only exception to this wholes