Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Farragut or search for Farragut in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

he land forces. While this is going on, the fleet from above will come down and assault our upper batteries, and the battle-line will extend a distance of ten miles up and down the river. By thus stretching out our lines — engaging every point at the same time — it is hoped that our troops may be diverted by the enormous extent of our line, and thus expose a weak point, which they hope to carry by storm.--That this is now the plan is evident from the appearance of the gunboats below. Farragut's two vessels and seven of Porter's gunboats are on hand to convey the land army along the river from Warrenton to Vicksburg, and while the army engages our men in the trenches the navy is to be occupied in shelling our batteries. This plan has been foretold ever since the first commencement of work on the canal a year ago. To land a force and to march it against Vicksburg under cover of the fleet has been the great aim from the beginning. Part first of this programme has been accompl