The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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A true account of the Yankee Captures at Vicksburg.

The Yankee papers have it that they captured at Vicksburg 34,000 prisoners, among whom were one Lieutenant General, four Major Generals, and fourteen Brigadier Generals, as well as one hundred and fifty pieces of artillery, and 30,000 stand of arms.--This account is the most exaggerated one of the war. A Confederate officer, on the staff of one of the Generals included in the capitulation furnishes the following account of what really was captured: First, the entire force captured will not reach above 23,000, secondly, there were only three Major-Generals captured, viz: Major-Generals Smith, Forney, and Stephenson. The Brigadier Generals were as follows: Brigadier-Generals Hebert, Moore, Lee, Shoup, Vaughn, Bowen, Baldwin, Cummings, and Buford, making a total of nine Brigadiers, and not fourteen, as the Yankees state. The captured artillery will not exceed ninety pieces at the utmost, and of these ninety a great many are unfit for use. The number of small arms captured was large, for the reason that we had gained large numbers from the enemy during the siege. On the 22d of May, after their repulse, they left their dead in front of our ranks, and on Sunday, the 24th, we requested them to permit us to bury their dead. During the truce all the arms lying in front of our lines were picked up and brought in. They numbered several thousand, and added greatly to the number of arms in our possession. The total amount captured from us must be about 40,000.