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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gen. Lee's army — later from the North. (search)
e may not have had the half of the force which even the Yankee estimate places at his command. But this we do know, that Vicksburg was a place of the utmost importance, that its capture, to be followed, we presume, by the capture like wise of Port Hudson, reduces our cause in the Southwest to great difficulty. Under such circumstances, it does appear to us that some little risk might have been run, some attempt, however feeble, might have been made to relieve it. But Gen. Johnston thought differently, and we suppose he is right. Doubtless he thinks the same thing with regard to Port Hudson, and we may therefore make up our minds to a catastrophe in that quarter.--From all the information we can collect, Grant never had more than 60,000 men around Vicksburg. He went there with that number, and was never able, with all his reinforcements, to swell his army to a larger size. The garrison had 17,000 men when they surrendered, and communication was constantly kept up with the army ou
News for the Bostonians. --The people of Boston are so very loyal that they will receive none but good news. A few days since the clerk of the Exchange Reading-Room was writing the latest news on the bulletin board, and had occasion to put down the rebel report that the Yankee troops had been repulsed at Port Hudson. Though it was given as a mere report from rebel sources, the writer was compelled to erase it by a clique of "loyalists."
Victories in Mississippi. Osterbans defeated at the big Black — Gen Banks routed at Port Hudson. Jackson, Miss, July 7. --Gen. Loring attacked Gen. Osterhaus yesterday, near Edwards's Depot, this side of the Big Black, and after 'three hours' hard fighting drove him across the river. Our loss is reported heavy. An officer from the vicinity of Port Hudson says Gen Dick Taylor crossed the Mississippi, under cover of our guns, last Saturday. He and Gardner then attacn. Osterhaus yesterday, near Edwards's Depot, this side of the Big Black, and after 'three hours' hard fighting drove him across the river. Our loss is reported heavy. An officer from the vicinity of Port Hudson says Gen Dick Taylor crossed the Mississippi, under cover of our guns, last Saturday. He and Gardner then attacked Banks and routed him with heavy loss. They are both marching to reinforce Johnston. There has been nothing further received regarding the fall of Vicksburg.
per to go aboard. The officers were very much depressed, and spoke very little to the Confederates in charge of the prisoners. The only fact they stated was that Sickles had died from his wound, and that up to Saturday night Meade, the Commander in Chief of the Army of the Potomac, had not been wounded.--Sickles's right leg was amputated below the knee, but the operation was so unskillfully performed that a second amputation became necessary. During the latter operation he died. The Herald, of Saturday last, promised an extra Sunday morning, in which it expected to announce the capture of Port Hudson by Banks; the fall of Vicksburg; the Bagging of Bragg's army by Rosecrans, and the utter rout of Lee's ragged rebels by the invincible veterans of Meade. It is very likely that the extra was not issued. One of our exchanged Confederate prisoners says he heard a Federal tell a friend at Fortress Monroe that Meade had lost 40,000 men in the battles of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Northwest Wants with the Mississippi. In another column will be found an extract from a letter written by the Jackson correspondent of the Mobile Register to that paper, relative to the consequences of the abandonment of both Vicksburg and Port Hudson to the Yankees, which is worthy of attention. --The views presented by the writer are the same expressed more than once in this paper. The people of the Federal Northwest have no desire to navigate the Mississippi, no advantage from it, but tthe people of the Southern Mississippi, Valley. This, while the war last, they can never have, even though the transports which convey their produce could pass along the bosom of the Mississippi uninterrupted, which they will not be allowed to do. Even with Vicksburg and Port Hudson in the enemy's hands it will be still in the power of our guerilla forces and our flying artillery to maintain a blockade of the great Father of Rivers more effective than that of our Atlantic ports by the enemy.
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], The possession of the Mississippi river--Vicksburg and Port Hudson (search)
The possession of the Mississippi river--Vicksburg and Port Hudson The Jackson correspondent of the Mobile Register discusses, in the f The question frequently suggests itself, suppose we abandon Port Hudson and Vicksburg, what benefit would the Federal Government derive New England (or rather Massachusetts) controls from the Gulf to Port Hudson. Therefore, the only remaining portion of the river not open to commerce is from Vicksburg to Port Hudson. The Yankee gun boat patrol renders it useless to us always, excepting some forlorn flatboat or sue reasoning. New England holds the river, with New Orleans, to Port Hudson, and the only benefit derived is not from trade but from pillage trade of the Mississippi and its tributaries with Vicksburg and Port Hudson in their possession. Let the West have the Mississippi and stil and the West can receive little or no benefit from the day that Port Hudson and Vicksburg are abandoned than she now enjoys. It will be