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The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
f our fleet passed the batteries but, as she was alone and unsupported, she no doubt by this time has fallen a prize to the rebel rams Webb and Queen of the West. It will be a rare piece of luck of the escapes. The endeavors of Admiral Farragut to get past the batteries would seem to indicate that he wished to attack Port Hudson from above while Gen. Banks, with the land force, invested it from below. But the plan, whatever it was, has for the time miscarried. Nor is the news from Gen. Grant's department at all what the country has looked for. Yazoo City has not been taken, our fleet is not above Haine's Bluff, nor have there been any rebel gunboats and transports destroyed. On the contrary, both rebel and Union accounts agree that our force has met with a check on the Tallahatchie, and was beaten back by a fort on that river. This is very bad news, and explodes into thin sir all the reports of the evacuation of Vicksburg which have prevailed so universally for some time bac