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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Women in workhouses. (search)
Women in workhouses. --In March of last year there were 39,073 adult females in workhouses in England and Wales. a highly lutestring account of the visit of its after to Vicksburg. Miss. It says: We arrived at thetwo-mile bridge on Sunday evening last, at about 3 o'clock, amid the booming of heavy mortars and the bursting of shell from the 15 inch ordnance of the Yankee fleet, which is anchored close in under the more below the point on the Mississippi State, and almost completely protected from our batteries below the city and to for from the upper batteries for them to reach their adversaries. The fire of the enemy on sunday, at midday, was by a salute of thirteen guns which was ordered by the Confederate commander in honor of the great victory over McClellan in Virginia. It was thought that the enemy mistook this salute for an attack, as we learn some of our guns were dotted, and opened furiously on the city, continuing, with an intermission of about one