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The Daily Dispatch: April 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
good order. The enemy burned the tents and everything in the camp. Several houses have been struck by the shells from the Yankee gunboats. A launch came in Bay St. Louis and took a schooner and out the telegraph line. The Confederate victory in New Mexico. Although we have heretofore published pretty full accounts of Gen. Sibley's victory in New Mexico, the following extract from a letter to W. H. Macwillie, Esq., member of the House of Representatives from risons, dated Mesilla; March 23, and written by Judge Hare, of the Confederate District Court will be perused with interest: "We have just received by express, from Fort Graig important news. A battle was fought between the forces of Gen. Sibley and Gen. Canby on the 21st February, which resulted in the complete defeat of the latter with great loss. The particulars, as given by the courier, disclose the fact that this has been the closet contested battle of the war, and perhaps the bloodiest for the num