New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-05-25
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A dispatch 10 President Lincoln announces
the surrender Of Vichsburg. lis date is Cleve.
land May 81, aud it is based on another from
the telegraph aupcriDt ndent at Memphis, who
declares that tie stars ard stripes float over
Vickrbure, and that the victory is complete
That the President received this message yes
terday ia certain; we only win 1t had been
signed by Gen. Grant, in order that all doubt
az 10 The fact might have been 6ispelled
There is however, second dispatch which
has Nor been sent 10 the press which stated,
with rather more precision than tho first. that The
whole Rebel army has been captured; aud a
third, also private, confirming the accounts Of
: he other two. We consider both these A.
nearly Trustworthy as anything but Official
or direct information can be, and reading
them in the light OF the previous news it -
hardly possible to doubt that the browning
victory Of the long struggle for The great river
has at lGs. been won, aud that Yicksbufg is
ours.
The news received previously 10 that OF the
capture was Of the most deci i've character
and 30 favorable 70 Gen. Grant that nothing
bat reverse on the battlefield could check
. hs progress. The tHo battles az Edwards .
, station and Black River Bridge were very
!; brilliant victories, AMI very sharply followed
up. The first seems 20 hfVe been decided by
i uaneuver on tho enemy's right which COM
PEELED him to escape by flank movement,
which il equivalent to saying by a preciptatc
ana probably disOrderly reircat. Tie .Oss OF
- pieces Of artillery IL conclusive az t. Die
completeness Of the defeat. II was succeeded
BY another battle the next day at Black River
Bridge, which was another Rebel disaster, the
euemy's position being again turned, aud at
tie ,ame time carried IN iron. b. gallant
bayOnet charge. Seventeen guns were tie
trophy OF that days work, aud tho morrow
saw Vicksbsrg it.elf closely invested. llainess
Bluff, heretofore considered the key Of Yicks-
burg was captured and by its fall Gen. Grant
gained control of the Yazoo. and resting bis
right on tie Mississippi, once more found d
base north Of Vcks6urg, and his transports
for tie first time passed under the frowning
Nights which hitherto lad clOsed tho YazOO
against them.
1 II Was before evident tibt the extraordinary
CELEBRITY Of Gen. Grants movements bad d.
yided the forces Of Johnston, who was up
uroaching from the north-esst, from those OF
PembertOn, who marched OUT Of VicksbuTg
expecting to unite WITH tho former ind give
. battle 70 Grant with their combined armies.
But the decisive action OF EdwGrdss Station
was fought on the 10Th, while Johnston was
still thirty miles away--tGo long dsys' marches
and Pember.On found himself driven back
upon and into Vicksburg, with heavy lOs6os IN
killed, wounded, aud prisoners, and with bu.
three guns out Of sixty saved. 1t 10 hardly
lpo,sibis to praise too highly the extreme ra-
{ pility Of Grants operations. The battle OF
: Rayinond was fought on the 18th. Jackson
CAPTURED on the I4th, Edwards Station on the
10th. Black River Bridge on the l7tb, Weeks
burg invested On the 18th, and iaines's Blu1
evacuated by the enemy on the same day.
pemberton was suddenly ccOptd up in the city,
Johnston Violated, and tho attack On tie Vieks-
burg dcierses proceeding day and night. II
the announcement Of It's surrender were not
wholly authen.ic-and there seems no sufficient
reason TO doubt tit surely ought 10 be made
10 to-day.
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