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.”
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