Posted on 07/24/2023 6:31:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
MEMPHIS, Tuesday, July 21, Via CAIRO. Thursday, July 23.
Gen. HURLBUT's scouts, arrived to-day from Okolona, Miss., report JOHNSTON at Brandon and Gen. SHERMAN in possession of Jackson. The rebel Gens. RUGGLES, CHALMERS, SAUNDERS and FERGUSON's forces are at Tupelo. RUGGLES is concentrating his forces with the intention, probably, of making a dash on our lines.
Correspondence from BRAGG's and JOHNSTON's armies depict them in great destitution and greatly demoralized. They give up Mississippi, and advise the planters to stay and make the best terms possible. Our scouts report the majority of the planters anxious that we should get possession of the country before JEFF. DAVIS has time to conscript them. JOHNSTON's army is estimated not to exceed 30,000. Great consternation exists throughout the whole Southern country.
The reports of our successes at Natchez, Yazoo City and Jackson, are fully confirmed. Large amounts of munitions of war, especially of ammunition, have fallen into our hands with these places.
OUR VICKSBURGH CORRESPONDENCE
Loss of another Gunboat by a Torpedo-Gen. Herron's Expedition to Yazoo City-The Place Occupied by our Troops-A Transport Captured-Narrow Escape of the Gunboat Kenwood.
VICKSBURGH, Wednesday, July 15, 1863.
On Saturday, the 11th inst., Gen HERROW'S division, which was originally destined to reinforce Gen. BANKS, and which had already been embarked for that purpose when the news of the surrender of Port Hudson was received, were dispatched up the Yazoo to capture a small garrison known to be occupying that point, the extreme right of JOHNSTON's line. The gunboat Baron De Kalb. the Mosquito boats, or thin-clads. Signal and Kenwood -- Nos. & and 14 -- and the steamer New National being sent along with the troops to cooperate. The expedition has been successful,
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