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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Mississippi --the negro Retaliation Question. (search)
Affairs in Mississippi--the negro Retaliation Question.
A letter in the Atlanta (Ga.) Appeal dated at Morion, Miss., August 16th, gives the following interesting account of the recent successful fight made by Col. Logan near Port Hudson.
The writer says:
It was chiefly an artillery and cavalry action, lasting about two hours, between eight hundred men on each side, commanded respectively by Colonel Logan and General Andrews.
Logan, it is true, dismounted some of his men, but a cavalryman dismounted is still a cavalryman.
If the enemy were not surprised, Logan charged on them with such impetuosity as to give the affair all the character of a surprise to the blue coats.
The hottest of the action occurred in the immediate vicinity of that literary institution, Centenary College, whose classic walls bear the marks of grape, shrapnel, and Minnie balls.
Around this building the enemy rallied, and it is said the negroes in arms with the enemy fought for awhile with spirit, c
Reported Defeat of the Yankees in Arkansas, &c. Atlanta, Aug. 27.
--A special to the Appeal, dated Canton, Aug. 25th, says the Yankees are reported defeated in Arkansas, on the White river, by General Price.
Reinforcements have been sent from Vicksburg.
Grant has gone to Natchez.
The Federals have left North Mississippi, and trains are again running to Grenada and Panola.
Flag of truce — Yankee Intentions Regarding Charleston. Atlanta, Aug. 27.
--The flag of truce has returned from Vicksburg.
The character of the communication is not known.
General Sherman says if Gillmore has taken Charleston and fails to lay the city in ashes, he will be sacrificed by his troops.
His superiors, the Northern people, demand the utter destruction of Charleston.