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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Trans Mississippi.--speculations about Grants army. (search)
erests receives his attention. All claims for service are being audited and liquidated as rapidly as possible, and the machinery of the State Government prepared for an economical and just administration. Another letter from the same place has some interesting speculations about Grant's army. It says: Let us suppose that Grant's forces, all told, including the reinforcements he may have received from the time he landed at Grand Gulf to his return to Vicksburg after the fall of Jackson, numbered 120,000 men. Of these he lost in battle — killed, wounded, and prisoners, thirty five thousand men, fifteen thousand more are in hospitals, sick or convalescent, and thirty thousand furloughed, including stragglers and deserters. This would show an actual deficit of thirty five thousand, and an aggregate deficit of eighty thousand men now in his army — leaving remaining forty thousand men now on duty properly belonging to Grant's army. Of these probably not more than fifteen tho
The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Bombshells and aristocracy. (search)
Runaway in jail. --Jesse Jackson, a slave, was committed to this jail on the 25th day of March last 5 feet 8 inches high slander build, dark complexion. His owner will please some forward, prove property, and take him away. George D Pleasants, Sheriff Seartee county. au 11--6w