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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Interest us from Mississippi. (search)
r be the recipients of Yankee charity. A gentleman who left Vicksburg lately states that a large portion of the Yankee army has left that place, some going up and others down the river. Gen. McPherson is now in command of the department, Gens. Grant and Sherman having left. The Federals are running trains of cars from the city to Big Black, and say they will have a bridge across that stream in thirty days, when they intend running to Jackson, and finally to Meridian. They have a large nin a destitute condition, and quite a number of persons from town and country are going up voluntarily and taking the oath of allegiance to the Yankee Government. There is no difficulty in getting in or out of Vicksburg at the present time. The Mobile Register says that Alabama and Mississippi alone can, within the space of two weeks, reinforce Gen. Johnston to the extent of fifty thousand men. Such a force will enable him to drive Grant back to the Mississippi river and hold him there.
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
g: Since the battle of Gettysburg, and the capture of Port Hudson and Vicksburg, the Federal forces under Meade, and Grant, and Rosecrans, and Banks, respectively, appear to have subsided into comparative inaction. The Army of the Potomac restt, and we doubt whether such support could be had without entirely stripping the defences of Washington of troops, unless Grant furnishes a portion of his fores for the purpose. In the meantime, however, the Confederate army, under Les, now lying bery strong one, and is also well fortified, the latter is not in any serious danger of having it wrested from him. Gen Grant's army has been broken up into several divisions — part of it garrisons Vicksburg, part has gone up the river, and part taken into account. These combined causes have, as a matter of course, simply reduced the number of effective men which Grant had at his disposal; whilst the comparatively small force under Banks has been still further reduced by the return home o
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Rumored removal of Rosecrans to Virginia. (search)
Rumored removal of Rosecrans to Virginia. --The Chattanooga Rebel, of the 6th, is informed by a brother of Lieut Col. Wm. Ewing, who has just returned from Middle Tennessee, that Rosecrans no longer commands the Army of Tennessee, and that he has gone to Virginia. It is not known who will be his successor, but it is guaranteed that Grant will be immediately called to that position. The correspondent of the Memphis Appeal mentions the transfer of Rosecrans from Tennessee to Virginia as a rumor.