Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Dahlgren or search for Dahlgren in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
was any one left to fight. A dispatch about Friday's fighting, dated at midnight, states that the fighting was fearful, and mildly adds: "We captured more prisoners than the rebels." This is the only advantage which the correspondent mentions. The 1st corps lost sixty-six per cent. of its men in Thursday's light. Gen. Robinson's division went into the light with 2,500 men, and the rebels let it out with only 896 left. One telegram says that important dispatches have been captured by Capt. Dahlgren from Jeff. Davis and Cooper to Gen. Lee. They indicate anxiety for the position of Richmond. Both decline to send Lee the reinforcements from Beauregard he asked for. The bombardment of Vicksburg — explosion of a mine — terrific scene. The correspondent of the New York World, writing from before Vicksburg on the 26th ult., gives an account of the bombardment of the day before and the result of Grant's first experiment in mining Vicksburg. The letter says: The way in which