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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Mississippi--the negro Retaliation Question. (search)
Affairs in Mississippi--the negro Retaliation Question. A letter in the Atlanta (Ga.) Appeal dated at Morion, Miss., August 16th, gives the following interesting account of the recent successful fight made by Col. Logan near Port Hudson. The writer says: It was chiefly an artillery and cavalry action, lasting about two hours, between eight hundred men on each side, commanded respectively by Colonel Logan and General Andrews. Logan, it is true, dismounted some of his men, but a cavr the engagement, at a little place called Centreville, twenty miles from Jackson, Louisiana. It is said, also, that prior to the execution, Gen. Andrews, learning the intended fate of the slaves, sent a communication under flag of truce from Port Hudson, warning Col. Logan that if he executed the negroes he would immediately retaliate, as he had the material in his possession. (?) If this should prove true, the Pandora box of this war is now opened in earnest, and the skull and cross-bones wi