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The Daily Dispatch: April 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Vicksburg. (search)
Gen. Grant was a feint, for the purpose of inducing the Confederates to reduce their forces here by sending the troops to points threatened with more imminent danger. I have it also from reliable authority that the reported arrival at Memphis of the greater part of Grant's army was all a ruse, got up for the same purpose of misleading and deceiving our authorities here. Instead of going to Memphis and on up the river, the troops were simply removed from the peninsula opposite Vicksburg to Milliken's bond, a distance of not more than twenty miles, and from above the reinforcements are on the way down instead of up the river. The officers at this point did wisely in preparing themselves with the means of securing the most accurate information of the enemy's movements, and the result proves that their suspicions were well founded. How this knowledge was obtained it is not purulent for me to state, but that none of Grant's army is more than twenty-five miles above Vicksburg is well