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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], The news from New York. (search)
tion on our right and centre this afternoon, but Walker's and Loring's divisions repulsed them handsomely. The artillery fire was incessant, and our batteries replied gun for gun. The enemy sought shelter in the woods. Heavy reinforcements for Grant continue to arrive, who are pressed around on our right for the purpose of crossing Pearl river above, and flanking us. The enemy are planting siege guns on their redoubts. It is supposed that to-morrow the remainder of Jackson will be burnt. [fourth Dispatch.] Jackson, July 16. --An entire block in this city was destroyed by the enemy's shells yesterday. Not a gun has been fired by the enemy this morning. Various conjectures are indulged in regard to their silence, but well informed persons think they are trying to flank us on our right, as their cavalry made an at tempt to cross four miles above last night.--Capt. Ferguson, of the South Carolina battery, was mortally wounded yesterday by the enemy's sharpshooters.