hide Matching Documents

Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 28, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Port Hudson (Louisiana, United States) or search for Port Hudson (Louisiana, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

The Daily Dispatch: July 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Adversity the test of fortitude. (search)
with a series of triumphs of the most brilliant character.-- The army and the people had adopted the idea of invincibility. Whether this led to ill-advised movements or not on the part of our Generals we are not able to say; but it had certainly imparted to the public mind a feeling of safety that has been rather rudely disturbed by recent events. In quick succession we have had the drawn battle of Gettysburg and the retreat of Gen Lee to the Potomac-- the surrender of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and the capture of Morgan's expedition in Ohio. Our armies in the Southwest have been, with small exception, inactive, while the enemy has reduced the two garrisons on the Mississippi, by which some 35,000 or 40,000 men have been lost to the Confederacy. Why there was not some concentration of our forces under Johnston. Bragg, and Holmes, at some point or other, to strike a blow while the enemy was thus engaged, is a question those officers alone can answer. But there was not, and th
The Daily Dispatch: July 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
imply that he has engaged to aid the rebels in reopening the Mississippi river,--and that this service is to be the basis of a future arrangement by which he will retain Mexico as a French colony — being aided in so doing by the South--and the South is in return to regain possession of the Mississippi and the States and territories lying West of it. This is said to have been the main object of Mr. Slidell's frequent and protracted interviews with the Emperor; and the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson was the event which was expected to throw Louis Napoleon and Jeff Davis into each other's arms. It seems quite certain that very heavy reinforcements, including several vessels and a large supply of artillery, are to be sent out to Mexico during the month of September. They can hardly be needed for further military operations in that country, for the war there is over. For what other use they are likely to be intended must remain as yet matter of conjecture. What all this amou