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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee Officer killed at Vicksburg. (search)
ed him that the horse belonged to Uncle Sam. Capt. Watts informed him that he was an officer, and was entitled to his horse and side-arms. Whereupon Capt. Yank called him a d — d liar, and cursed him for some time, and commenced abusing the women of Vicksburg, and called them a d — d set of outcasts. Capt. Watts then drew his pistol and remarked to the Yankee that he hated to kill as mean a dog as he was, but his honor compelled him to do so, and fired, the ball entering the right breast and killing him. The guard cried out, "Kill the rebel!" "Cut him down!" Capt. Watts presented his pistol and said, in a very composed manner: "Proceed, gentlemen; but I will kill four of you before you accomplish your object. " But the guard came to the conclusion that he was too brave a man to fool with, and decided to let him pass. Capt. Watts mounted his horse and rode out of town and we are happy to say that the gallant young here has arrived safely in Brandon, Miss., waiting to be exchanged
The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Peninsula. (search)
From Louisiana. Atlanta, Aug. 8. --A special dispatch to the Appeal, from Brandon, Miss., 6th inst., says: "Ransom's division of Grant's army, with seven "mosquito gunboats," descended the Mississippi and opened fire on the bayous of West Louisiana. " A heavy Yankee force ascended the St. Charles river, in search of our force in Arkansas. Dunt, brother in law and partner of Grant in negro apprentices, was recently captured near Lake Providence, La., by Col. Matt. F. Johnston's guerillas. The Confederates recaptured several thousand slaves with Dunt. The Yankee force is at Montcastle, on the Big Black, except the expedition to West Louisiana.