Posted on 05/31/2023 4:44:45 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, May 30.
A special to the Bulletin, dated Cincinnati, May 30, says:
"A dispatch received from the Lower Mississippi via Memphis, (date not given.) says there had been no fighting at Vicksburgh since last Monday. Most of the river batteries had been silenced, but the most dangerous ones were yet in operation, and the gunboats were shelling them.
It is reported that Col. DALLINA and Adjutant HAMMOCK, of the Eighty-first Illinois, have been killed."
ST. LOUIS, Friday, May 29.
Mr. S.C. SCOTT, the well-known river man, arrived to-night, from Young's Point Sunday last. He has been with GRANT's army and saw some of its operations. He says our forces are well prepared to repel any attack in their rear, and were in the finest spirits, and confident of their ability to capture Vicksburgh and its garrison.
He says the attack on the fortifications on Friday was not made by the entire line, as was reported, but by a force under Gen. BLAIR, which assaulted the big battery and failed. Wherever the rebels attempted to plant guns they were foiled by our sharpshooters.
Our wounded are brought rapidly to the river at Chickasaw Bayou, where there are sufficient boats to receive them. The City of Memphis has reached Cairo with 120 wounded, and the January was next due.
Our base of supplies on the Yazoo was secure, and reinforcements were arriving as rapidly as required.
Gen. OSTERHAUS and Capt. FOSTER, of the First Wisconsin, are wounded, not dangerously.
Mr. SCOTT heard nothing about the death of Gen. STEELE. There were 4,800 prisoners in camp at Young's Point.
CAIRO, Thursday, May 28.
By the arrival of the steamer Imperial, from Memphis, last evening, in all letters and dispatches from correspondents,
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The Siege of Vicksburg: No Active Hostilities Since Monday – 2-4
From the Army of the Potomac: Heavy Columns of the Enemy in Motion – 4
Important from the Frontier: A Severe Fight in the Indian Territory, Near Fort Gibson – 4
The Rebel States: Premature Jubilation Over the Situation at Vicksburgh – 4-5
Tennessee and Kentucky: The Army of the Cumberland Believed to be in Motion – 5
News from Washington: Moseby’s Guerrillas at Catlett’s Station – 6
Editorial: The Bloody Siege of Vicksburgh – 6
Slavery in Virginia – 6
Why are we Defeated? (Writtenby a Massachusetts officer taken prisoner at Chancellorsville) – 6-7
The City Hall Park – 7
Personal – 7
I like reading about the Civil War. William Henry Talbot Walker ((ShotPouch) was my great aunt’s (×5) son. His grandfather fought at Kings Mountain in the Revolutionary War, one of the last battles.
He was in Vicksburg on the Confederate side. He was one of the first casualties in Atlanta.
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