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The Daily Dispatch: May 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee praises of Jackson. (search)
Yankee praises of Jackson. The Enquirer passes an appropriate and pithy comment upon the Yankee praises of Jackson, now that he is dead. Him "they never could afford to admire until he was dead, and their sorrow is tempered by a sense of reliJackson, now that he is dead. Him "they never could afford to admire until he was dead, and their sorrow is tempered by a sense of relief" The Enquirer thinks that their creditable mimicry of admiration of him "is second only to that unfeigned homage which, in their inmost souls, they pay to the living grandeur of their own hero, Butler, who embodies, in highest perfection, all tha them, and to prove that in accordance with their own standard of true glory, as displayed in Butler, their great model, Jackson is unworthy of their praises. It says: "It may seem harsh, at such a moment, to damage, in the eyes of the Yankeeink it a duty to inform them — they will scarcely believe us; they had formed a smarter opinion of human nature — that Gen. Jackson did not accumulate a fortune in this war. He did not speculate in sugar or molasses; in tobacco or in flour; he robbed
The Daily Dispatch: May 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Burnside's Military Executions. (search)
The battle in Mississippi. Mobile, May 19 --The special reporter of the Advertiser and Register, under date of the 18th, at Jackson, furnishes the following particulars of Saturday's fight, received from the Adjutant of the 15th Mississippi regiment, from Canton last night. The battle was fought at Baker's Creek, about twenty miles west of Jackson. We whipped the enemy badly until he was reinforced from Jackson. Gen. Pemberton then fell back to Big Black bridge.--Gen. Pemberton estimates our loss at 3,000 and the enemy's three times as many. Gen Loring, on the left, was cut off, but cut his way through to Crystal Springs, twenty five miles south of Jackson. His loss is unknown Gen. Tighman was killed.