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sadly tunnel were driven off by the sharp shooters across the river. It is very long ranges, but still near enough to render a Michaeline unpleasant visitor. Men will stand being shot at when they can to their shooting send em back the same but to be picked off in cold blood, whilst perched up on a scaffold and intent on some mechanical employment, is decidedly unpleasant. The following address has been issued by Gen Van Dorn. Headq'rs district of the Mississippi.Vicksburg.July 18, 1862. To the Troops defending Vicksburg. Your conduct thus far, under the circumstances which surround you has won the admiration of your countrymen, Cool and self possessed under the concentrated fire of more than forty vessels of war and mortar boats, you have given assurance that the city entrusted to your keeping will not be given up to the blustering demands of cannon nor the noisy threatening of bomb shells. Such exhibitions of vary serve but to you and to animate the tedium of