Posted on 04/26/2023 4:45:32 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Saturday, April 25.
The following dispatch from Major-Gen. BURNSIDE has been received at the headquarters of the army here:
CINCINNATI, April 23, 1863.
Major-Gen. H.W. Halleck, General-in-Chief, Washington:
The following dispatch has just been received:
HEADQUARTERS, LOUISVILLE, April 22, 1863.
The expedition to Celina was entirely successful. Col. GRAHAM reports through Gen. HOBSON that they destroyed the town, 100,000 pounds of bacon, 70,000 bushels of wheat, 10,000 bushels of corn, 100 barrels of whisky, 100 barrels of flour, a considerable quantity of sugar, coffee, tea, malt and other stores, and forty boats, which had been used in transporting from Burksville, and other points on the Cumberland. The rebels report a loss of ninety killed, but Col. GRAHAM, commander of the expedition, is of the opinion that the number is greater. We had one wounded and one missing. The result is highly creditable to the troops engaged. Indeed it was a perfect success. Brig.-Gen. WRIGHT.
A.E. BURNSIDE, Major-General.
AFFAIRS ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.
MEMPHIS, April 23.
The steamer Planet has arrived from below, and brings later intelligence from Vicksburgh. On Monday night, fifteen transports ran the blockade and are now below Warrenton. The casualties are not known.
MEMPHIS, April 23.
Six more transports have recently been successful in running the blockade. They are the Tigress, Empire City, Moderator, Anglo-Saxon, Cheeseman and Harrison. The casualties are not known.
The Free Stone and A.D. Hine have taken two double-deck flatboats through the Duckport Canal. These boats are capable of carrying one thousand men each. Transports now run by Warrenton without difficulty, the batteries being silenced.
Gen. BANKS' army is at Point Coupee, on the south bank of Red River, and opposite Bayou Sara.
Northern papers are not allowed in Gen. GRANT's army at present.
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The War in the Southwest: Great Success of the Expedition to Celina, Tenn. – 2
The Siege of Vicksburgh: The Visit of Adj’t-Gen Thomas to Gen. Grant’s Army – 2-3
From the Army of the Potomac: A Dashing Expedition to the South Side of the Rappahannock – 3-4
The War in Missouri: Contradictory Reports About the Rebel Forces – 4
Important from the South: Growing Magnitude of the Food Question – 4-5
The War in Western Virginia: A Successful Expedition by Gen. Milroy – 5
News from Washington – 5
The Coal Miners: A Trip to the Pennsylvania Coal Regions – 5-7
Editorial: River Guerrillas in the West – 7
Rebel Signs in Missouri – 7
From Mexico: A Denial of the Reported French Defeat Before Puebla – 7
Navigation Open on Lake Champlain – 7
Weather Reports – April 25 – 7
I wonder if the 100 barrels of whiskey were actually destroyed….or was it like, “Caleb and his yankee buddies destroyed that shipment of Jack Daniels!”
U.S. Mississippi Marine Brigade Fight at the Mouth of Duck River (near Bakerville, TN), April 26, 1863. Niteowl77’s ancestor was aboard the Steamer ADAMS when this little-known action began.
“Sunday morning the 26th was foggy, and the fleet did not get under way until about seven o’clock. About half past eight o’clock the mouth of Duck River was reached. This stream empties into the Tennessee from the east,and just here is one of the many difficult points in the navigation of the Tennessee. Directly opposite the mouth of Duck River is a rocky shoal, which extending above, and a short distance below, intervenes itself between the channel of the Tennessee and the east shore. The channel at this point is narrow and tortuous, and the current swift, making it necessary for a steamer, when once she has entered upon the passage of these rapids, to go through without stopping.
About the time the flagship AUTOCRAT was fairly started in at the head of these shoals, she was suddenly saluted from the east shore by a fire at short range, from a four gun battery, and with a rattling rain of bullets from the carbines of some five or six hundred dismounted cavalrymen. The enemy’s artillery was rapidly served, and their small-arms fire was incessant. The AUTOCRAT made instant response, and the DIANA and ADAMS, just in her rear, were quick to join the fray, while the Baltic with her rifled guns, from above, poured in upon the enemy a destructive, enfilading fire. The shores of the Tennessee echoed with the thunder of artillery and the roar of musketry, and the river itself was quickly overhung with a dense cloud of sulphurous smoke. The Marine fire was heavy and accurate, and the enemy were more than once driven from their guns, but quickly rallying, continued their assault upon the descending boats until nearly all had arrived opposite.
As soon as the AUTOCRAT reached the foot of the shoals, she sounded the whistle signal to land, and rounded to, and quickly began sending her troops ashore. In the meantime the enemy, perceiving the movement, limbered up in haste and began a precipitate retreat. As soon as the Brigade could be disembarked, it was put in line, and began the pursuit. The character of the country, in this immediate locality, was such as to require that the greatest caution be exercised in following the enemy. Thick woods and miry, overgrown swamps, threaded by numerous winding roads, over which the enemy had passed and repassed, during several previous days, made it an ideal place for ambush, and difficult to determine the direction taken by the retreating foe. The advance was therefore at first necessarily slow. It soon appeared, however, that the enemy was in full retreat, and the pursuit was thenceforth pushed with great vigor. Several times the Marine cavalry overtook and had a brush with the rear guard of the escaping column, but could not force them to a stand. As the Confederate command, which was all mounted, largely outnumbered the Marine cavalry, and the Marine infantry was left far behind, the chase was abandoned at a point some twelve miles back from the river. The enemy left behind material evidence that summary punishment had been received by them, in return for their attack upon the boats. Four of their men were found dead on the shore where they fell; four more, including a Lieutenant, were killed, and one taken prisoner, during the pursuit. Four miles back from the river, Major White, of the Sixth Texas Rangers, was found in an abandoned house dying, from a wound in the breast: two ambulances full of wounded were driven away with the fleeing force: while numerous pools of blood found on the river bank told sad tales of human mangling and pain.
The casualties in the Brigade were: two killed, viz. Sergeant Cavender of Co. H , Inf., and Private Winchell of Co. A. Cav.; the former on the ADAMS, and the latter on the AUTOCRAT: one seriously wounded, viz., Henry E. Young, whose foot was taken off by the same shell which killed Winchell, and who died in the Mound City Hospital, a few days later. Quite a number of others received wounds of a less serious nature, from flying splinters. Three horses were killed, three were badly injured on the DIANA, two were killed on the ADAMS, and one on the AUTOCRAT.”
Big Union defeat coming, but a bigger loss for the loss. Stonewall.
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