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The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Northwestern Virginia. (search)
ous, so well organized, and so thoroughly disciplined, armed and equipped, as at present. The lesson of high water, on which our enemies relied to enable their fleet of gunboats to penetrate into our country and devastate our homes, is fast passing away. Yet, our strongholds on the Mississippi still bid defiance to the foe, and months of vastly preparations for their reduction have been spent in vain. Disaster has been the result of their every effort to turn or to storm Vicksburg and Port Hudson, as well as of every attack on our batteries on the Red river, the Tallahatchie, and other navigable streams. Within a few weeks the falling waters and the increasing heats of summer will complete their discomfiture, and compel their battled and defeated forces to the abandonment of expeditions on which was based their chief hope of l sucesse in effecting our subjugation. We must not forget, however, that the war is not yet ended, and that we are still confronted by powerful armies,
The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Hood's division. (search)
r floated past Natchez on the 1st inst. --The Lancaster was sent to save the Hartford and Albatross, which have passed Port Hudson, and can't either get back or go on. She had to pass the batteries at Vicksburg on her errand of "mercy," and was litesly petitioned com. Porter for the control of two formidable gunboat, that he might "sweep the river from Vicksburg to Port Hudson, and retake his lost boat, the Queen of the West." This request was refused him; and, doubtless, as soon as Farragut's two vessels sent down last Wednesday, Farragut no doubt, determined to run the gauntlet of Warrenton, Grand Gulf, and Port Hudson, rather than stay where he was, with the probability of being forced to destroy his own vessels or eventually surrende suffered dreadfully. We opine there will not be much left either of the vessels or their crews by the time they pass Port Hudson. As the Hartford passed the Warrenton batteries she was sixteen times penetrated by rifled cannon shot — a fair foret