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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Vicksburg --Gen. Pemberton
Affairs at Vicksburg--Gen. Pemberton.
The occupation of Milliken Bend by the troops of Gen. Kirby Smith has been followed by its legitimate consequences much sooner even, than we had apprehended.
It has forced Grant threatened by the horrors of a famine in his camp into a desperate assault upon our lines, from which he has been repulsed with enormous loss.
It appears, even, to have compelled him to look to his rear for the means of escape from the trap in which he has been caught.
The wisdom of General Johnston's plans begins to appear, and the long forecast and wide-reaching sagacity, with which he has been preparing the impending catastrophe, are every day more and more and object of admiration.
Compelled to form an army in the face of an enemy several times more numerous than himself, he has succeeded so far as to place himself almost on an equality with him. Knowing that procrastination was all important to him, while it was fatal to his enemy, he has contrived to put off
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], Capture of Yankee recruiting officers. (search)
Opinion of a Yankee officer.
--A gentleman who left the Yankee lines, near Vicksburg, a few days ago, overheard one Yankee officer ask another what he thought of "the situation" He replied, "If it is times, as reported, that Kirby Smith has possession of Milliken's Bend and that Johnston is in our rear with 70,000 men, as is also reported, there will not be enough left of us to tell the tale"