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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Trans Mississippi.--speculations about Grants army. (search)
probably not more than fifteen thousand will constitute the permanent garrison at Vicksburg, to be reduced to ten thousand or less, when the growing strength of the defences of that place will warrant the reduction. What, then, becomes of the remaining twenty five thousand men left after the garrison has been supplied? It is more than probable they have gone, with Grant at their head, to reinforce Meade in Virginia, to accomplish the destruction, if possible, of that magnificent army of General Lee, whose destruction the Yankees so fondly think would accomplish the subjugation of the South. They are not prepared just now to attack Mobile, although, of course, it is in their programme; but they look first to the result in Virginia, and to the capture of Charleston, when the monitors now thundering at battery Wagner will salute the Gulf city from the ocean, and the army now gone to the assistance of Meade will attack it in the rear. This seems, from the stand point we occupy her
The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
ial dispatch to Gen. Halleck, asserts the accuracy of his dispatch announcing the result of the cavalry affair at Falling Waters. He says: I enclose the official report of Brig. Gen. Kilpatrick, made after his attention had been called to Gen Lee's report. You will see that he reiterates and confirms all that my dispatch averred, and proves most conclusively that Gen. Lee has been deceived by his subordinates, or he would never, in the face of the facts now alleged, have made the assertGen. Lee has been deceived by his subordinates, or he would never, in the face of the facts now alleged, have made the assertions his report contains. Gen. Meads add its that he was in error in stating that the body of Gen. Pettigrew was left in the hands of the Federal, but claims that three flags captured on the occasion, belonging to the 40th, 47th, and 55th Virginia regiments of infantry, have been sent to Washington. Miscellaneous. Brigadier-General Gouverneur K. Warren, Chief of Topographical Engineers, has been promoted to a Major-Generalship, and is spoken of as the choice of the Army of the Pot