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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], The possession of the Mississippi river--Vicksburg and Port Hudson (search)
The possession of the Mississippi river--Vicksburg and Port Hudson The Jackson correspondent of the Mobile Register discusses, in the following letter, a question which is rendered of more interest by the intelligence of the fall of Vicksburg: The question frequently suggests itself, suppose we abandon Port Hudson and Vicksburg, what benefit would the Federal Government derive — what injury would it entail upon the Confederacy? Suppose we should give up those places and thus gratifyistory for the last two years and then judge the future by the past. The object held in view by the West for the prosecution of the war is, that the possession of these places would give them the free and unobstructed navigation of the Mississippi river to the Gulf, and as a necessary consequence, its commerce and that of its tributaries. The commerce and trade of the Mississippi is absolutely essential to the existence of the Western people, who have two great and powerful motives in car