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The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Ravages of the Yankees in Mississippi-President Davis's plantation Pillaged. (search)
Ravages of the Yankees in Mississippi-President Davis's plantation Pillaged. We have received the Jackson Mississippian, as late as the 6th inst. It learns from an officer directly from the Trans-Mississippi Department, that General Price had ordered his troops to keep five days rations prepared and be ready at a moment's wars now close upon Helena, threatening to cut off the enemy's supplies. The Mississippian says: Last Sunday a body of Yankees went upon the plantation of President Davis and rifled it completely, destroying every implement of husbandry, all his household and kitchen furniture, defacing the premises, and carrying and driving off every negro on the place. The plantation of Mr. Jo. Davis, brother of the President, was treated in the same way, if we except four or five domestic servants which the robbers left. Our cavalry yesterday brought into Jackson a small party of Yankee cavalry; which was captured near Edwards's Depot. The party had collected