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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Department of the West. (search)
he Atlanta Appeal, that some important changes have been made in the department of the West. Gen. Johnston, in compliance with a long-standing request on his part, has been released from the charge of affairs in East Tennessee. Bragg is now in full command there, while Johnston devotes himself to Mississippi, Alabama, East Louisiana and West Tennessee. The arrangement heretofore existing was veg, Maury and Pemberton had special charge of the departments to which they were assigned, while Johnston had nominally, or more properly, advisory charge of all. It was his mission to take special comparticulars which might be dangerous, I can illustrate my point by saying that the ideas of General Johnston differ diametrically from those of General Pemberton on this point, and that when Johnston Johnston arrived in the department the troops were placed precisely where he did not want them. The new troops sent into the department, though liberal as reinforcements, were almost useless as an independent
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Interest us from Mississippi. (search)
thirty days, when they intend running to Jackson, and finally to Meridian. They have a large negro force at work cleaning and repairing the streets, and they allow no goods to be sold except by their sutlers, at stipulated prices. If a citizen wishes to buy an article from a sutler he gets an order from the commandant of the post, who stipulates the price he has to pay for it. A number of persons are returning to the city and receiving rations from the Yankees, on a certificate that they are in a destitute condition, and quite a number of persons from town and country are going up voluntarily and taking the oath of allegiance to the Yankee Government. There is no difficulty in getting in or out of Vicksburg at the present time. The Mobile Register says that Alabama and Mississippi alone can, within the space of two weeks, reinforce Gen. Johnston to the extent of fifty thousand men. Such a force will enable him to drive Grant back to the Mississippi river and hold him there.
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Dangerous Engines of Warfare. (search)
Dangerous Engines of Warfare. --Previous to the evacuation of Jackson, Miss, by Gen. Johnston a large number of percussion shells, the invention of Brig. Gen. Rains, were placed at various points under ground to prevent the Yankees following our army had they intended to do so. The Brandon correspondent of the Atlanta Appeal thus speaks of their efficiency: I learn from a gentleman who remained in the city and witnessed what he relates, that the advance of the enemy, a large body of cavalry, crossing Pearl river with a view to fall upon our rear, marched over and exploded a bed of these shells. About fifty of the enemy were killed and wounded, and a large number of horses, and the explosion occasioned an immediate stampede of these latter to the rear. They in their turn communicated the panic to the infantry following them till the whole party was involved in confusion and panic, those in the rear imagining that the advance had fallen into an ambush, or were engaging our