Posted on 11/25/2022 5:34:31 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
ST. LOUIS, Monday, Nov. 24.
The Democrat of this city, has information that the rebels are now busily at work fortifying Port Hudson, a hundred and fifty miles from New-Orleans.
The same engineer who laid out the rebel works at Vicksburgh, has just completed the plan of the fortications at Port Hudson.
Ten or twelve guns are now in position, and in two weeks from the present time Port Hudson will be as strong as Vicksburgh, and will prove a serious bar to the ascent of Rear Admiral FARRAGUT's fleet.
The rebels are now running steamboats from Port Hudson to Lake Providence, a distance of more than three hundred miles.
The rebels are also running boats on Red River, bringing immense supplies of cattle from Texas, and large quantities of salt from the new salt works on Red River, which are situated about fifty miles above its mouth.
It is stated that these works produce ten thousand bushels of salt daily, all of which is rapidly sent to the East via Vicksburgh.
One object of the fortifications at Port Hudson is to prevent the National forces from marching on these salt works.
Gen. SCHOFIELD and Staff arrived here last night. The General's health, though not fully restored, is rapidly improving.
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