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The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Bank's Department. (search)
tarting to get his thrashing from Kirby Smith: The latest order is that planters are ordered to plant cotton, if not their property is confiscated. The tax is one half to be given to the U. S., one fourth to be sold them payable after the war and one fourth cash, or in plain English the Yankee Government takes all the cotton, and pays for one-fourth. Magruder and Price were reported by the Yankees as being at Shreveport, and they admit a severe defeat. The dash of Col. Powers into Port Hudson is confirmed. There are but two white regiments in Baton Rouge, one of which is an Ohio regiment. They are tired of the war and wish to quit, and say they will whip us this summer. The whole country is full of spies. The negroes are paid to report what ever they can learn. The Yankees themselves can be purchased. An English gentleman from New Orleans told our informant he could buy any Yankee in that city. Six thousand negroes have been sent from Rhode Island, and arrived a