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The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Capture of a gunboat — official Dispatch. (search)
Capture of a gunboat — official Dispatch.
The following official dispatch was received at the War Department yesterday:
Demopolis, Ala., April 23d. To Gen. S. Cooper:
Brig. Gen. Wirt Adams, Commanding Cavalry on the Yazoo River, telegraphs me from Yazoo City, on the 22d inst., to this effect: I have the honor to report the capture of a gunboat to-day, near the city, while lying near the shore.
She was attacked by a section of artillery and a detachment of sharpshooters under Col. Griffith, who drove the men from the guns and finally the crew from the boat.
I removed her fine armament of eight twenty-four pounder guns and the most valuable stores, and had her burned to the water's edge.
The captain and pilot are prisoners in my hands, and a number of the crew.
My casualties are small. L. Polk, Lieut. General.
From Mississippi. Demopolis, May 6.
--Information from Mississippi states that the enemy, with ten
thousand infantry, two batteries of artillery, and 250 cavalry, all under Gen. McArthur, were advancing towards Yazoo City, and encamped night before last eight miles below Mechanicsburg.
The Daily Dispatch: May 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Operations around Richmond — the battle not renewed yesterday — firing at Chaffin's Bluff — another steamer destroyed in St. John's river , &c. (search)