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The Daily Dispatch: June 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], Milliken's Bend in our possession. (search)
absolutely stop the passage of all and every kind of craft bound either up or down the river. As all the provisions for Grant's army come from above, it will at once be seen that this conquest must prove fatal to the enterprise against Vicksburg. ers must eat if they be expected to fight, and if they can get nothing to eat they must fall back. As far as we can see, Grant cannot sustain his army without the free use of the Mississippi. In the meantime Smith, having possession of Milliken's greatly enlarged by the conquest of Kirby Smith. The tails are slowly, but, it appears to us, surely being drawn around Grant. Already sickness to an alarming extent is said to prevail in his army, who are forced to drink the water of the Big Blain a way that shall silence his detractors forever. The advantage which will accrue to our cause from the repulse of Grant and the salvation of Vicksburg, are prodigious. We shall have made the enemy fail in the operations of a whole campaign.