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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Jackson news. (search)
disturbances, sat no bread, cost no money. We had rather hear of one hundred thousand dead Yankees than of one single Yankee prisoner. There is but one thing in this telegram which is displeasing to us. It is the little sentence "The Yankee wounded and dead were still lying in front of our entrenchments." --There is an awful Vicksburg twang throughout this sentence. When we read it we seem to be carried back three weeks, and to have before the works of Vicksburg the attacking army of Grant and the defending army of Pemberton. It will be recollected with what unction the telegraph rolled the sweet morsels under its fiery tongue — how it told of piles of Yankees lying dead before our works — how it discoursed of the horrid stench exhaling from their petrifying carcases — how we were continually repelling the barbarians and reddening the earth with their gore — how with scarcely a change of tone, it suddenly told us that Vicksburg was fallen, that its garrison were prisoners, t
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
The Vicksburg affair. --The paroled prisoners from Vicksburg are rapidly arriving at Jackson, Miss. The Mississippian, of the 7th inst, says: The programme of Gen. Grant, as we learn from the same source, will be to leave a heavy garrison at Vicksburg, and take the remainder of his Army North. In that case time will be given for Gen. Johnston to make his defence of the State of Mississippi successful. It is difficult to state what advantage the enemy has attained in the captuimple capture of 17,000 of our troops does not materially injure us, as they will soon be exchanged, but the moral effect produced by the taking of our Southern stronghold is greatly to be dreaded, both among our own and the Northern people. Grant, as we are credibly informed, is sending a large portion of his Army North, several transports having already left filled with soldiers. If such be the case, it is highly probable — indeed, it is a thing to be looked for — that Vicksburg will so
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Jackson news. (search)
ll, on the 12th inst. Heavy skirmishing still continues. Several houses were demolished yesterday by the enemy's shells. [fifth Dispatch.] Jackson, July 14th, (via Mobile, 15th,) --Gen. Johnston sent a flag of truce to-day to Gen. Grant, asking permission to bury the Yankee dead in front of our works. General Grant asked permission to send assistance, in order that the dead might be recognized, which was refused. The terms originally proposed were then agreed to. Our trGeneral Grant asked permission to send assistance, in order that the dead might be recognized, which was refused. The terms originally proposed were then agreed to. Our troops have been engaged all the afternoon burying the dead Yankees. The exact number is not yet ascertained. The Yankee officer in charge of the flag admits a loss of four to five hundred. Among their killed and wounded are Col. Earl, Lieut. Col. Long, and Capt. Hall, of the 41st Illinois; Lieuts. S. Smith and McMasters, of the 53d Illinois, and Lieut. Abernathy, of the 3d Iowa. Among the officers on our side are Major Lamb, of the 29th Georgia, killed; Lieuts. C. C. Braden, of the 1