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The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Vicksburg. (search)
name is Elliott, and that he belongs to the 30th Alabama. He is known in Alabama as the best marksman in the State. Gen. Grant speaks very disparagingly of Johnston, and says he will whip him certainly if he comes to attack him where he is. He has received heavy reinforcements since the fall of Snyder's Buff. Among the killsuccess, and hope for the best, but the truth might as well be told first as last.--Unless Vicksburg is relieved it must ultimately fall. The movements of Gen. Johnston and others it is improper in me to mention, but from them I draw the most cheering inferences. The garrison of Vicksburg is better supplied than I at first suhe is expected to operate against Warrenton, and on the New Orleans road. Banks and his forces are considered of but little consequence. Gov. Pettus and Gen. Johnston have issued a joint appeal to the people of Mississippi to volunteer, as ninety days troops, as cavalry or infantry. There is no time for procrastination; the