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The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], In Pekin is issued (search)
In Pekin is issued --we can scarcely say published — a newspaper, printed on a large sheet of silk. It is said to have appeared with great regularity every week during the last thousand years. (?) A public meeting at Accrington, England, has, by a large majority, passed a resolution in favor of recognizing the Southern Confederacy. Gen. Johnston seems determined to maintain discipline in his army. He has issued an order that all pillagers and plunderers be shot upon sight by the guard. Major-General Whiting assumes command of the Department of North Carolina, with his headquarters at Wilmington. Morgan, July 13th, was moving successfully through Ohio.
The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Impossibility of Johnston saving Vicksburg (search)
The Impossibility of Johnston saving Vicksburg The Mobile Register says: The proposition of the fall of Vicksburg being absolute, it is now plain that it has fallen with the least possible harm to us. If it had held out only twenty-four hours longer, Johnston's army would, without any doubt, have been out to pieces. Johnston was on the Big Black, and on Saturday night his army bivouackeJohnston was on the Big Black, and on Saturday night his army bivouacked with orders to move on Grant's entrenchments at two o'clock in the morning. Before the hour arrived, the news of Pemberton's capitulation was received. From what has since been learned of Grant's position, it is now known that if Johnston's force had been doubled and troubled it could never have got through the works of Grant. The country for miles was defended by felled timber — every gorge by a superior force? We claim that we have been fortunate in saving the gallant little army of Johnston, as well as the Vicksburg garrison, from further loss. The latter will before long be exchange