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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], War Matters (search)
d not allow it to be done. Defences of the Mississippi river. A late number of the Memphis Appeal says: Our "inland sea"--the great Mississippi —— has not yet been surrendered to the control of the enemy. Still more vigorous efforts, it seems, are to be made to repel his fleets, both from below and above, through the old instrumentality of land fortifications and heavy ordnance. The fall of Forts Henry, Donelson, Pulaski, Macon, Jackson, and St. Philip, of New Madrid and Island No.10, do not furnish a moral to our authorities sufficiently pointed to deter them from this difficult enterprise. They are determined that the approach to Memphis, at least, if nothing more can be accomplished, shall not be quite so easy as the foe was led to believe upon hearing that New Orleans had fallen. Accordingly, the defences at Forts Pillow and Wright, and Vicksburg have been greatly strengthened, and nut in a condition to delay the Federal flotillas a long time, if indeed they