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From Vicksburg.

Vicksburg, May 6
--It is that Col. Ferguson destroyed two of the enemy's transports and two barges at Greenwood, crippled another, and drove office gunboats.

Nothing important from the army below — The enemy has not B. Black, and at last accounts but the boat was in sight across the river.

To-day a company of the 46th Mississippi was captured at Port Gibson, but subsequently made its escape from the enemy, and is not with its regiment was taken on the 25th ult., at Port Gibson, escaped and rejoined his regiment, recently.

The Daily Dispatch: May 8, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. May 8, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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