Posted on 02/08/2023 4:54:42 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
CHICAGO, Saturday, Feb. 7.
A special dispatch from Cairo to the Tribune of this city says:
"A dispatch from Memphis announces the arrival of the steamer Adeline from Vicksburgh. She reports that the ram Queen of the West ran the rebel blockade on Monday morning at daylight. One hundred heavy siege guns opened on the Queen of the West as she steamed past. A rebel steamer also opened fire on the Queen of the West, which was replied to. The rebel steamer was crippled. The Queen of the West was under fire three-quarters of an hour."
CAIRO, Saturday, Feb. 7.
The light-draft gunboat Glide was destroyed by fire this morning. The boat guns and machinery are a total loss. The cause of the fire is unknown.
Vicksburgh letters of the 31st ult. say, that the canal project is fully adopted, and that the largest possible force will be kept at work night and day upon it until it is completed. It must be wholly cut the required width and depth, it having been demonstrated that no reliance can be placed on the action of the water washing it out. Some weeks must elapse before the completion of the work. Troops from above continue to arrive.
DISPATCHES TO THE WESTERN PRESS.
CAMP OPPOSITE VICKSBURGH, Thursday, Jan. 29, Via CAIRO, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1863.
Gen. GRANT and Staff arrived this morning.
Gens. MCCLERNAND, SHERMAN, MCARTHUR, and others are here, with their commands. Gen. LOGAN's division is expected to follow from Memphis soon.
Work is progressing on the canal cut-off above Vicksburgh. Engineers are making new surveys, and probably intend to enlarge the present cut-off instead of constructing a new one. It is believed that transports can be taken through it to the river, four miles below the town, in a week;
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News from the Mississippi: Another Dashing Naval Feat at Vicksburgh– 2
Our Cairo Correspondence: The Death of Col. Steward Below Vicksburgh – 2-3
The Attack on Fort Donelson: An Official Dispatch from gen. Rosecrans – 3
The Feeling of the Western Army – 3
The Peace Party: A Letter from “One of Them” – 3-4
Affairs at Port Hudson: The Rebels Receiving Supplies by Way of the Red River – 4-5
From the Army of the Potomac: The Weather Cold and the Roads Improving – 5
News from Washington: Debate on the Missouri Emancipation Scheme in the Senate – 5
News from the Rebel States: The Troubles Between North Carolina and the Rebel Government – 5-7
Editorial: Government Engineering – Whitewashing – Documents Wanted – 7-8
News from the Rebel States (continued): Spirit of the Press – 8
News from the Mississippi: Another Dashing Naval Feat at Vicksburgh– 2
The NYT is loudly announcing the intention to get transports south of Vicksburg. A competent Rebel commander would have made preparations for that contingency.
The Confederate War Department, at least, is alert to the danger. As John Beauchamp Jones says in his diary entry today.
“Pemberton permitted one iron-clad gun-boat to pass, and all our boats below are now at its mercy.”
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_7.html
Thanks, I missed that. Pemberton was in a post too big for him. (A “what if” I think of sometimes is what if the “Arkansas” had survived.)
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