The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-08-26
VICKSBURG.

The Yankees having abandoned the siege of
|lcksburg and retired ingloriously from the con-
test, her business marts have become once more
active with teeming life. The newspapers of the
city having resumed publication, we copy from
one OF them Ohe CitiZen) the following spirited
account Of the bombardment and its effects:
The remarkable escape of the people of Vicks-
burg during the late bombardment is one of the
most wonderful illustrations of the protecting care
OF an overrulng Provide nee that has vet been re-
corded in the history of time. For ten weeks
did their mortar fleet lay off before this city, and
hurl their fiery missiles into our midst without
efectlnS any serious injury. Notwithstanding
their boastfu threats that they could lay this little
city IN ashes two hours under the fury of their
combined fleets, Vicksburg still stands-appar-
emily as sound as ever. The power of their gun
boats has vanished the prestige and dash of their
mortar fleet is broken; the glory of their navy is
Departed; their trip on the Mississippi was bar
rem one. But their main object-their pet idea
the destruction of Vicksburg, was above all the
Object OF their hearts desire; and in it they made
a humlating failure. All the power of every
mortar, rifle, siege gun, small arms. grape. CAMS
from the minnie ball to the hundred and ninety
pound bomb she'll, all were hurled with the con-
certrated fury of thc-combined fleets against this
devoted city.
During the storm Of fire. and iron, SULPHUR. and
all the helish combinations of Yankee ingenuity,
on the morning of the 28th of June, the constant.
unbroken and deafening roar, the reverberatinr
echoes from the forest, the bowling Of the rife
balls IN their passage through the air. the clouds
Of dust they raised when they struck the earth
with force that shivered everything they hit
the whirring of fragments of shell as they flew
from the elevated points Of explosion, and the con-
tinuous sheet of flame the river, all combined to
render 1t the most terrific pyrotechnc exhibition
ever witnessed Indeed, it is fair to assert that
the like never was seen before. The accounts
given by the enemy themselves say that the world
had never witnessed bombardment like this.
Their combined fleets composed of the
pride and boast of the Federal navy-the arma
ment all consisting of the latest most improved
and destructive instruments of gunnery, manned
by the most experienced adopts, urged by all the
considerations and inducements of booty and beau
ty. and driven by most savage. wanton. brute
force, which was further augmented blythe morti-
caton at seeing their efforts SO fruitless and abor
tive. The prestige of their first class sloops Of
war, Hartford, Richmond, Brooklyn, Loq,.ois
and Oneida the boast Of their mortar feet and
the terror OF their gunboats had forsaken them
1t has been aptly said that if all the thunder
storms that man has ever heard in his life were
concentrated into space of three hours, it would
not equal the tumultuous of that eventful
morning. The very earth shuddered the forest
trembled, and the buildings ratified as if shaken
by 4 hurricane. Such is imperfect picture of
the terrific bombardment On the morning. of the
18th, and again on the evening of the 18th july.
1t is reported that Gov. Magofin and Lit Gov.
Fisk, of Kentucky, have resigned