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Destruction of the "Arkansas,"
Mobile, Aug. 8--A special dispatch to the Advertise and Register dated Jackson, to-day, says! Gen. Van-Dorn permits me to copy the following dispatches: "Amite River, Aug. 6.--About one o'clock this morning the Federal gunboats attacked the Confederate ram Arkansas. Messengers inform me that she fought them well for sometime, inflicting great damage. She was then blown up by her crow. The messenger thinks they all escaped. ‘"(Signed) John C. Breckinridge."’ "Collet's River, ten miles from Baton Rouge, Aug. 6--We occupied the whole of the town and the battle field till evening, but no decisive result was gained after my last dispatch. There being no water between here and the Mississippi river come with her machinery injured five miles above the town all day yesterday. Her commander sent me word last evening that he would try to get her up the river, and asks if it be possible to send him a boat to aid him. From the reports she is permanently unserviceable. We burnt nearly all of their camps, and a large amount of stores, and cut them up badly.--Gen. Williams, and other prominent officers. killed. "(Signed) John C. Breckinridge., Rumor says that Gen. Clarke is a prisoner. Parties from the field say that our victory was complete. The ground was strewed with the dead and wounded.
The Daily Dispatch: August 9, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. August 9, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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