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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Mississippi. (search)
read the approach of our cavalry. Twice destroyed they dread a renewal of the conflict. But it must come. If the vandals burn — and they will — we must make the best of it, take care of the refugees, and have patience with those who, failing in the means of fight, take rations from the Yankees. I am tolerably well advised that none of Grant's troops have gone north of Memphis. I have no means of getting an approximation to his force. Banks's force at the time of the surrender of Port Hudson was fifty regiments, averaging three hundred men each. Twenty-eight of these regiments claim that their term of enlistment has expired.--Those regiments were full when they came to New Orleans--one thousand and forty each--fifty-two thousand men. Banks has lost thirty-seven thousand. God only knows how many have been lost opening the Mississippi from Cairo down — probably five times as many. The Mobile Advertiser has the following telegram, dated Okolona, Miss., Aug. 20th: A <
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
e. They say they would have escaped by putting out to sea if they had been supplied with food or clothing. Captain Webster, of the cutter Dobbin, boarded every vessel he met until he captured the prisoners. They had some $200 or $300 rebel money, with some green backs. They are now secure in the jail here. Their boat was a miserable one, and totally unfit for their contemplated trip. The condition of Louisiana. A letter to the New York Times, from New Orleans, says that Port Hudson is now occupied by negro troops. Speaking of the condition of things in Louisiana, the writer says: There is a vast difference in the character of the country lying above Baton Rouge and that below. Above they have been searching for their "rights" by erecting batteries and firing at steamers from every bend in the river. The result of their search is, that where once were towns and princely dwelling houses there is to-day nothing but gloomy chimneys and desolation; where once wer
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from Europe. (search)
ave been absurd for those who had previously bought largely to boast of the superiority of their judgment over those who had been unfortunate enough to sell. In the present case the operators who were purchasers of the Confederate loan were like persons entering into a battle, to take all its chances, and it must be admitted that these have fallen upon them to the utmost extent that could possibly have been anticipated, the sudden retreat of Lee and the simultaneous fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson constituting an accumulation of disaster rarely paralleled. The following correspondence with regard to the Confederate loan has passed between one of the holders and Mr. McRae, who acted as agent from the Confederate States for its negotiation: no. 35 St. James place.London Aug. 5, 1863. sir: the present position of the seven percent. Cotton Loan on our Stock Exchange is such as to give anxiety to the holders, of whom I am one. At the same time I, for one, have not lo