IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTHWEST: Gen. Herron’s Division Said to be Going to Mobile; Mississippi Virtually Abandoned by the Rebels (8/1/1863)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 8/1/1863

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CINCINNATI, Friday, July 31.

The Fifty-second Massachusetts regiment, numbering 789 men, arrived at Cairo yesterday, from Port Hudson, en route home, to be mustered out of the service. Their time expired July 11.

Vicksburgh advices of the 26th inst., say that Gen. HERRON's division has gone to Mobile.

Our army has fallen back to the Big Black River.

Jackson, Miss., is entirely destroyed.

Gen. JOE JOHNSTON is believed to be retreating to Mobile, which place the enemy are making desperate efforts to defend.

MEMPHIS Wednesday, July 29.

Gen. JOE JOHNSTON's army is said to be on Pearl River, a few miles west of Meridian, where fortifications are being erected.

Gen. JOHNSTON will make the Mobile and Ohio Railroad from Okolona on the north, to Mobile on the south, his line of defence. He is said to have received large reinforcements from BRAGG's army.

Mississippi is virtually abandoned by the rebels. There is a strong Peace Party in that State, in favor of returning to the Union, upon a guarantee being given that the rights of the people under the Constitution -- of person, of property and of conscience -- shall be maintained.

Some say that they would donate half their incomes to liquidate the public debt, if the existing difficulties could be adjusted on a fair, just and honorable basis.

Gen. GEORGE, commander of the Mississippi State Militia, Gen. CHALMERS, and other rebel officers, are moving their commands from the northern and central portions of the State toward the South.

The removal of the slaves from Mississippi into Alabama and Georgia has been carried to such an extent that the Governors of those States have issued proclamations forbidding their further introduction, and Gen. JOHNSTON's pickets are said to have turned a large number back.

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Important from the Southwest: Gen. Herron’s Division Said to be Going to Mobile – 2
The Capture of Jackson: Particulars of the Brief Siege – 2-3
The War in Kentucky: The Engagement at Paris – 3
The War in Tennessee: Defeat of the Rebels at Lexington – 3
The Armies in Virginia: Lee’s Army Said to be Massed at Culpepper – 3
The Army of the Potomac: Gen. Gibbon’s Division in the Battle of Gettysburgh – 3-4
The Siege of Charleston: Official Report of Gen. Gillmore – 4
Disinterments at Gettysburgh – 4
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 4-5
Editorial: Peace and Reconstruction – 5
Editorial: The Immedicable Wound – 5-6
The Labors of Grant – 6