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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Averill raiders — a probability of their capture. (search)
From New Orleans. Mobile, Dec. 22. --Capt. Girard, Chief of Ordnance for Gen. Gardner, escaped from New Orleans on the 10th. He confirms the meeting at Fort Jackson. Three gunboats were sent down at 10 A. M. A gunboat went to Fort Pike in the afternoon, and he heard heavy firing in that direction. The Confederate partisans had burned two schooners transporting cattle to Bayon LaCombe, near Manchaca. The pickets on the road reported that Taylor had whipped Franklin, on the 11th, at the mouth of Red river, driving him back to his gunboats, and on the 12th shelled Baton Rouge. Letters from Johnson's Island state that our prisoners were on less than half rations. Col. Miles, Capt. Hewitt, and Col. Ben Johnson, of the 15th Alabama, were in irons for trying to escape. The True Della's extra, giving an account of the meeting, was suppressed. [Second Dispatch.] Mobile, Dec. 22. --The Advertiser has a special dated Oxford, Miss., December 21. The Chicago Times, o