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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Interest us from Mississippi. (search)
tores, provisions, and supplies of all kinds, have been impressed, all communication between the city and country interdicted and the rich and poor place on a common level, and the loyal people of that city and district left to starve or be the recipients of Yankee charity. A gentleman who left Vicksburg lately states that a large portion of the Yankee army has left that place, some going up and others down the river. Gen. McPherson is now in command of the department, Gens. Grant and Sherman having left. The Federals are running trains of cars from the city to Big Black, and say they will have a bridge across that stream in 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
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Hurtle of Gettysburg. (search)
Southwestern Items Morton, Aug. 10. --There is no news of interest from the front. Sherman's headquarters are near Osterbaus's old quarters, about two miles from Big Black bridge. Two divisions have been moved back to Big Black. The camp contagion still exists to a frightful extent in Steel's division. Their pickets are this side of Big Black, but none venture further than two miles from the river. A. Mrs. Landerson, of Kentucky, has been hung by the Yankees because she refused to disclose the whereabouts of her husband. The Post Office at Jackson has been re-opened.