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The Daily Dispatch: July 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Fall of Port Hudson. (search)
ell in its place; but we maintain that the cause is in no such desperate condition as to require the aid of these powerful stimulants. We have lost Vicksburg, it is true, and the enemy are advancing upon Jackson. But it is to be hoped that General Johnston will now feel the necessity of action, although he never seems to have felt it while the enemy was besieging Vicksburg. He has, if all accounts be true, a very considerable force, and the telegraphic statement that Grant has 100,000 men we take to be a sheer exaggeration. From the best information we can gather, he has not now, and never has had, more than 60,000 men. We trust in God, then, that Gen. Johnston will take into consideration the great interests which are in his hands, and the utter loss of his military reputation that must inevitably follow a premature retreat from Jackson without offering some show of resistance to the enemy. To be sure it will be much more difficult to offer effectual resistance now than it would
The Daily Dispatch: July 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
he plan, Gen. Grant will consent. The number of prisoners, wounded, &c., it is said, will be 18,000, of which 12,000 are in fighting condition now. The immediate cause of surrender is exhaustion of supplies and ammunition, and the failure of Johnston to come to their aid. At daylight our whole army will enter triumphantly and celebrate the doubly glorious anniversary. Not a shot has been fired since 8 o'clock from our lines, except from the river mortars. A general interchange of civilitie a reserve army at Culpeper, as Lee had suggested, owing to the fact that D. H. Hill's command had been largely reduced reinforcing other points; and it was equally impossible to spare a single man from Beauregard's command. Horses were needed, Johnston could not succeed against Grant without them, and Davis had fears for the fate of Vicksburg. Davis was sorry he could not forward money to Lee. The Quartermaster General tells Lee that he cannot send him supplies and ordnance without horses, an