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
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.