Posted on 03/17/2023 5:03:32 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
CINCINNATI, Monday, March 16.
The Gazette's Vicksburgh dispatch says the Yazoo Pass Expedition has captured twenty-six steamboats, eighteen of which were destroyed. The gunboats have arrived above Hanes' Bluff, and would soon commence the attack.
Rumors were rife of the evacuation of Vicksburgh, and it was supposed that the greater part of the rebel force would go to Chattanooga, and endeavor to overwhelm Gen. ROSECRANS.
Gen. MCCLERNAND's troops were compelled to embark for Milliken's Bend, sixteen miles above Vicksburgh, owing to high water.
Recent operations at Lake Providence and elsewhere resulted in inundating more than one hundred miles of Louisiana territory, destroying millions of dollars worth of property.
The guerrillas were completely drowned out.
ELLET's Marine Brigade arrived at Cairo on Saturday.
CHICAGO, Monday, March 16.
The Tribune's special dispatch from near Vicksburgh, dated 9th inst., says Gen. MCCLERNAND's troops have been compelled to embark for Milliken's Bend, sixteen miles above this point, the levee being broken in several places.
The Yazoo Pass project is a complete success. The gunboats have arrived above Haines' Bluff, which is probably fortified against attack from above. Our fleet captured twenty six transports up the Yazoo.
DISPATCH FROM ADMIRAL PORTER.
Commodore Smith's Signal Guns Heard Above Baine's Bluff.
WASHINGTON, Monday, March 16.
A dispatch from Admiral PORTER, dated Vicksburgh, March 7, says he has just heard the signal agreed upon between himself and Commodore Smith, who commands the naval portion of the Yazoo expedition, to be fired by the latter as soon as he succeeded in getting into the Yazoo River, viz.; nine minute guns, and three guns afterward in quick succession.
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Operations on the Mississippi: Important Success of the Yazoo Pass Expedition – 2
Dispatch from Admiral Porter: Commodore Smith’s Signal Guns Heard Above Haine’s Bluff – 2
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News from Washington: Good Health of the Army of the Potomac – 2-3
Editorial: The Copperheads and the Democratic Party – 3-4
Editorial: The Cultivation of Cotton – 4
Editorial: Additional Relief for Wounded Soldiers – 4-5
Editorial: Vicksburgh and the Yazoo – 5
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