Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-06-12
Fight at Grand Gulf-Sixty Feaerals Killed

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 Our Natchez and Jackson Miss exchanges contain news of brisk fight at Grand Cult on the oih. Says disoatch in the Natchez Courier, dated Port Gibson 27th:
 foRr GIBSON, May 24, a. m.--FOur gunboats and three transports opened fire on Grand Gulf yesterday morning
 They threw shelf through two dwelling houses occupied by families, the shells lodging under the store of Buckingham & Go. All the front part of the store was blown up, but no damage was done to any citizen.
 The federaIs sent an advance guard of fifteen men up the road when our men fired un them. kill ling five, wounding one, and took one prisoner
 No one hurt on our side. We had to retreat
 An Indian that has been living in Grand Gulf for ten years turned traitor, and Is to lead them up to Por: Gibson.
 We are looking for them every minute Our artillery numbers only four 6-rounters.
 We are going to make stand here, if we can get enough to back it.
 The lederas will bring force of about 800 ur 500 against this place.
 The people are wild with excitement.
 The frigates Brooklyn aud Richmond were at Grand Gulf.
 There was fighting at Vicksburg vcsterday.- Heavy firing could be heard in that direction.
 The federa!s have one oi our negroes on board of their vessels,
 The Jackson Mississippian of yesterday evening adds:
 Gentlemen of intelligence and veyacty, vii. the cars last evening, state that an en s4- ment had occurred between one of our comp,aies and such citizens of Claiborne as could go to their assistance, and force of the enemy which bad landed at Grand Gulf, sdvancng on Port GiiJaon. with the intention, is supposed, of mosins fer ward to Hizlehurst, on the New Orleans riJoal, and from thence marching to Jackson, or to Camp Moore, probably the latter, with the expectation of uniting with another federal force said to have landed at Baton Rouge, and 70 be movag .a4rf ..4 tu 'fauSpl+3, a.statioIt ' x 5sr r...i.,3,ir <. I gagement at near Grand Gulf, the report is taat sixty of the enemy were killed Our loss Is not stated.
 The same paper contains the sulioined substance of statement received by Gen Lowell:
 Capt. iloskins' battery, which was sen tn Cra,,t Gulf reported to Gen. Lowell th1t they hai s..l one Of the enemy transports and cripp ed aptt1er on Saturday and Sunday. The enemy came un and landed troops at Grand Gulf, a.ui mar.acl through Port Gibson. Our people j,ov, them i,clz 10 ther boats with considerable loss, kilI:ng and woundng about one hundred
 Referring to the same affair, the viclsburg Whiz of yeserday says:
 It is reported, by way of Jackson. and WI th,r- on pretty good authority that after the cicr G.- struyed Grand Gulf they started for Port t5.l-ol. but were met on the way by a battery of ne,d ar. ullery and company ot guerrlias, and comgl.tcy hEIN ctl tu tIiSu Odl5 WlLn COnSlUcE .e loss led and wounded. We hope it may prove true
 z,sssz4zsa44zs4zzszzzz s-sss5y,-,., piED-At her parents residence, Little Rock, Arkansas, EMMA GARLAND, aged six V ars, only ehld ot Hon. A. II Garland and Virginia his wife Gentle Tn her actions, but quaintuess in man ner5, We cannot describe in language but which 8 parent sees in his darling child and chats oI apG when he cometh home his dear wife embr.ce- him, both (nerhaps adyance) look 1t the dear eli4 who prdttes away of the occurrences of the Guv er home, with smiles that might almost e <c,ts teal ousy, making their very home radiant thr3urA t1n sunlight mellow ed by the west as .a mid-Gty, and ln day to see the light Ou tenearth'' ead0,l'y going out and then in few short hours to see he, Wan and paliid limbs cniied in the embrace of death, and the whit3 tress surro nnding the a1tl- ted form the G0id white flowers spangliag it. one may well say '' God bless tue parents; # still as one gazes upon the paGd face, vet mars the hgI, gentleness ahd loveness surrounding 1t, he must and will believe in the kind good Father who gathers his little children to an eternal rest of hap piness.
 Sweet Emma farewell to the changing pleasures ot earth. merely ,o exchange them for the joys oi bllssIui immortality
 As a, flower sue live the space Of morning and then gded into heaven. S
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 In this county on the llth of May, 1862. Torty w. PURDoa, iii the 18th year Of bis age. Ar. Pur- uom was d useful citizen, consistent member oi i the ai. E. Church, anu died he haa Hvel, Nith She ~ara atl' ctions oi his friends aAd ia ..ll hope of a blisslul hereafter.
 At Georgetown Ky, on the l2th day of April last, THoMAS r. JohysoN, aged 33 etr5 Thomas r. Johnson, the $, n of Eu,H9 [. John son, was for many years resident with his in.he- ot this place. He afterwards went to Caliorn.4, where he remained until few years back. and r,- turned and settled upon the Mississippi river, He was in Georgetown, Ky !, in wreJched health when that place was occupied uy the frderals. He was reqnired to take the oath of allegiance 10 the United States government, but perempJori,v refGs ing to do so, he was subjected to a confinement that ended in his death. He preferred death to a slavery to the federal government. He was byld generous, open hearted boz, when we knew him here. Had he been in good health, he would have made his mark in this waI--ls it vas, he died u martyr to the cause. E