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From the South.
The mail last evening brought papers from the South and Southwest as late as due. We compile from them the following summary of news:
The situation on the Lower Mississippi.
The Vicksburg Whig, of May 29th, says:
We learn that the Federal put out pickets at Grand Guff on Monday night, and that in the morning one of them was discovered a corpse, having been shot during the night by some of our sharpshooters.
Those of our citizens who had built caves for their families to go into when the bombardment commenced, were very willing to seek safer quarters yesterday morning.
The holes which the enemy's missiles made in the ground satisfied them that their holes were not impregnable.
The enemy's gunboats continued bombarding the city until two o'clock yesterday morning, when they withdrew and fell back to their old position Several houses in the city were struck and damaged by the balls.
Those injured as far as we could learn were as follows: The
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Lesson from history. (search)
1st "Virginia Faver" and the Yankee
--The following, which we copy from the New York Tribune, of May 29th, indicates that the Yankee soldiers are having a mash time of it in the swamps below Richmond:
Mrs. Parker and Worster, eminent physician of large practice in this city, say, with emphasis, that it is difficult, and in many instincts impossible, for the sick and wounded men to get well, so long as they are exposed to the malaria arising from the swamps in Virginia.
Several times the neighborhood of Yorktown has been depopulated by the poisoned atmosphere that hangs like the wing of death over that section of country.
The fevers that visit the camp of the soldier arise from various cases — exhalation, brought on by long and rapid marches, the use of unwholesome water, sleeping on the damp ground, weakness resulting from bleeding wounds, &c.--but they all are aggravated by the poison in the air; indeed, the miasma is, in nine cases out of ten, the sole cause of the fev
An Impressible
--A New York paper, of the 29th May, says.
It is now well understood that "unauthority hangers on" were excluded from the army of Tennessee by Gen. Hattleck because the rebels managed to obtain intelligence of the disposition of our forces through someone with the army.
The leaky individual, according to the correspondent of the Cincinnati Times, is a brother of Governor Yates, of . The rebel agents were two fascinating sisters named Irwin, whose father owns any amount of broad acres and almost counted contrabands, and who have the enviable reputation of being the "most elegant ladies in Tennessee," reside at Savannah, and since the occupation of the place they have professed strong Union sentiments, and their parlor has been a general rendezvous for all the young gallants in the service.
No one questioned their loyalty, and in course of time they became as familiar with our position and strength as our own Generals.
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