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The Daily Dispatch: June 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War in the Southwest. (search)
rties in boats, the town bring nearly all covered from two to four feet deep with water. They remained in possession of the town until about sunset, when they all withdrew to their ships, and these were ha led off and anchored in the river, and everything gave promise of a quiet night. It should be noticed, however, that a party of the enemy seized four or five negro men, and carried them off to one of their ships, a movement the object of which was afterwards made plain. At night Capt. Roakins very judiciously retired with his company two or three miles towards the interior, and a number of citizens volunteered to perform picket duty for him on the roads leading out from Grand Gulf. This proved to be a very wise precaution, for after dark a party of ten or a dozen of our pickets discovered a force of the estimated at from three to four hundred, approaching them about a mile and a from Grand Gulf. Their advance was suffered to come within about twenty yards, when they were