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The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
doing, or whether he and Ewell have formed a junction. The account which we have satisfy us that Banks has either to evacuate that section or meet once more in deadly combat the men whose homes have been plundered by the rabble which he commands. These men will fight desperately under the recollection of the wrongs they have sustained and the gross indignities that some of their families have been offered. The Federals are not making much headway in subjugating the towns on the Mississippi river. Vicksburg and Natchex utter defiance to the gunboats, whose dreaded power caused the surrender of New Orleans. A few of the most during of their crews ventured ashore a few miles below Vicksburg, on the afternoon of the 19th, and were welcomed by bloody hands to hospitable graves. Their attempts to get down the river are even less successful, Fort Pillow and Jeff. Thompson presenting insuperable barriers to their progress.--Any other nation than the indefatigable Yankees would have
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
y and drive him back. During the first few days of the week, there were 1,600 Federals with six mounted howitzers at Jacksonport.--They said that they expected supplies up white river, evidently looking at the possession of Memphis and the Mississippi river as a foregone conclusion. The majority of the people here seem to think that we are to be visited by these gentry. Others believe that such a visit is contingent upon the result of the battle at Corinth, and if defeated there, the Federalk: Fort Pillow, River Defence Fleet, Gunboat Little Rebel, May 10, 1862. Editors Appeal: We Missourians concluded to day to celebrate the anniversary of the Camp Jackson massacre. We have shown the enemy that we still own the Mississippi river, and can "run the blockade" whenever we choose. We gave them a few butts this morning to show them our power, and after a handsome little scrimmage of thirty minutes, we backed down the river to our post; with two men killed and eight