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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Mississippi. (search)
Donaldsonville, and has since been reinforced by five thousand Texans. Magruder's headquarters are at Houston, and the Governor of Texas has taken the field at the head of ten thousand State troops. Kirby Smith has called upon the Governors of the different States in his department to meet him at Marshall, Texas, on the 15th, to take measures to repel raids of the enemy. Kirby Smith has received official communications from Gen. Forey, who proposes to occupy and garrison Tampico and Matamoras. The pickets of the enemy have all been withdrawn from this side of the Big Black, and once more have the sorely tried citizens residing in that vicinity been relieved from their ruthless enemies, and as our cavalry are watching them very closely the citizens will be protected from those annoying raids which have almost devastated the country lying near the Mississippi river. I omitted in yesterday's letter to state that Dick Taylor's cavalry had "gobbled up" thirty-five of the Y