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s point, and they are now in full retreat for Yazoo . A special to the Appeal, dated Panola, 19th, says the Federals engaged in the raid upon Hernando have retreated. The report of their having abandoned the Memphis and Charleston road is untrue the old troops being replaced by new ones, and the old garrison taken to Memphis. The Mobile and Ohio railroad has been abandoned from Jackson Tenn., to Columbus, Ky. Five hundred cavalry have crossed the Coldwater, 62 miles northeast of here, and moved towards Holly Springs. The Appeal learns of no new movements at Port Hudson. Banks has fallen back to his fortified camps, and manifests no disposition to advance.--Deserters continue to come in, and all report dissatisfaction in their camps. The fleet continues outside. The two vessels above have been slowly steaming up the river. --They landed and cut down a few poles of the telegraph line, carrying off the wire below Natchez. The damage was quickly repaired afterwards.
Interesting from Port Hudson--Sloop-of-war Richmond--long-range Practice, &c. Port Hudson, La., March 21. --Reports of the sinking of the U. S. sloop-of war Richmond from injuries received in the fight of the 15th inst., prevail. Nothing definite, however, has been ascertained. The mortar fleet still occupy their old position, out of range below. Yesterday the enemy fired slowly at our transports with long-range guns, without effect. A party landed from the transports and burnPort Hudson, La., March 21. --Reports of the sinking of the U. S. sloop-of war Richmond from injuries received in the fight of the 15th inst., prevail. Nothing definite, however, has been ascertained. The mortar fleet still occupy their old position, out of range below. Yesterday the enemy fired slowly at our transports with long-range guns, without effect. A party landed from the transports and burned the residence of Capt. J. Horn, formerly that of Col; Sidney Robertson, on the opposite shore. Some activity has prevailed among the enemy's transports for the last two days, but there are no indications of another attempt to pass the batteries. Twenty Federal deserters have arrived in the last two days, and are continually coming in. They confirm the previous reports of demoralization in Banks's army. Our batteries sustained no injuries in the late engagement, and are ready at
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], The last Chapter of Butler's rule in New Orleans. (search)
old the writer that three hundred Massachusetts soldiers had been sent to New Orleans from Ship Island for mutiny and beating the blacks, and that one hundred and thirty resignations had occurred among the officers of the flotilla, (his own among them) but had been refused, and the parties classed as . After said the cause was Lincoln's proclamation. Credat Judeus Apella sun ego. It was the retributive late or the Harreit Line and the Hatteras, and the frowning batteries at Vicksburg and Port Hudson, which cooled their warlike ardor. Let our heroes yet a little while Breast the tide of invasion as they have breasted it during the past two years, and Uncle Abraham himself will sympathize with the South in a few months. The 25th and 27th Massachusetts are disaffected, and threaten to lay down their arms when called into the field, and the sailors of the Hartford, the Pensacola, and the gunboats are arrested in scores for vociferating through the streets that they "won't fight for