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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], The bombardment of Vicksburg. (search)
From the Southwest. Mobile, July 8. --The Memphis Bulletin, of the 6th instant, says that the Federal are connecting their two fleets at Vicksburg by cutting a canal across the country on the opposite shore. They are also fitting out an expedition to go up the Yazoo river to take the Confederate batteries, situated 60 miles above the mouth of the river. On Friday last, our guerrillas captured and burnt forty wagons, loaded with Federal stores, on the Memphis and Charleston Railrwing up entrenchments five miles in rear of the city. A portion of Sherman's division has moved from Grand Junction to Moscow, 40 miles from Memphis, where entrenchments are being constructed. Negroes are being impressed throughout West Tennessee for the purpose. An attack is evidently expected by the enemy. Mobile, July 8.--Passengers by the flag of truce steamer, Natchez, from New Orleans, report that Baton Rouge has been taken by Gen. Van-Dorn, and that he captured 1,500 prisoners.