Posted on 06/05/2023 4:48:58 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Thursday, June 4.
Unofficial, but reliable dispatches received here today from our army, dated near Vicksburgh, May 31, represent no material change in affairs. There had been no fighting for several days, but the siege works were being energetically pushed forward. Our army is in good condition and fine spirits.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, June 4 -- Midnight.
A telegram was received to-night extracted from the Richmond Sentinel, June 3, as follows:
"JACKSON, Monday, June 1.
Gen. GRANT demanded the surrender of Vicksburgh on Thursday, giving three days to Gen. PEMBERTON to consider the demand. Gen. PEMBERTON replied that he did not want fifteen minutes, and the troops would die in the trenches before they would surrender. The enemy's gunboats fire heavy shot at the city. Port Hudson is invested."
The gentleman forwarding this dispatch to the Government adds: "There is nothing in the Richmond Enquirer of the 4th."
Dispatches have been received directly from Gen. GRANT's army of dates respectively 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st, and while they mention the progress of the siege, they say nothing of any assault since the 21st and 22d, nor of any battle since the 25th, which last was not very heavy. Our troops are officially represented in good health, spirits and condition.
Up to the 31st of May the siege of Vicksburgh was progressing with reasonable satisfaction. There was not then any immediate pressure on GRANT's rear; and Gen. BANKS had Port Hudson invested.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, June 4.
The Bulletin, of this City, has the following special dispatch:
CINCINNATI, Thursday, June 4.
Our direct advices from Vicksburgh are to the 30th of May.
For several days previous, quiet prevailed all along our line, broken only by occasional cannonading.
The Cincinnati Commercial has a dispatch dated the 30th, saying:
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The Siege of Vicksburg: Everything Progressing Well – 2-4
Another Rebel Navy-Yard Destroyed: Two Formidable Iron-clads Blown Up at Shreveport, La. – 4
Department of North Carolina: All Quiet in the Department – 4
Kilpatrick’s Last Raid: Details of the Expedition from Gloucester Point to Falmouth – 4-5
Gen. Rosecrans’ Department: The Rebels All Massed Along Our Front – 5
Acting Brig.-Gen. T. Kilby Smith: Army of the Mississippi – 5
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 5-6
Editorial: Prospects at Vicksburgh – 6
Camp Followers and Conscription – 6
Grant’s army by now was starting to slowly starve them out.
Let them live in dirt caves in the hills and eat rats/
The Gabrialdi Guards wore the distinctive hats of sharps shooters, Bersagliere, from the Royal Sardinian Army with the distinctive back feathers. I believe the Betsagliere have remained a unit for the various Italian armies to the present day.
Lincoln needs to tell Grant to set up a telegraph line from Vicksburg. News about such a critical battle taking days to reach the reader of the New York Times is intolerable in this modern age we live in.
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