The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-07-17
NEWS.
From Mississippi.

FROM MtSSlSsippl.
Jackson, July The Mississippian Of
fee il boxing ~ all its type. Everything
here Is in confusion. Can send You moth
ing but what is coutraband.
JIcksoA, July s.--Everybody Is prepar'
ing 10 leave.
The enemy is reported at Raymond
and advancing.
An officer who arrived from Vicksburg
tells me that the garrison had been living
on pea bread and mule meat for two
weeks.
He says. that il il had been known.
that relief was coming il would have
held out longer.
II is stated that all the officers Of Penn
berlon urged him to surrender.
jackson, July S.--A number of the
Vicksburg heroes arrived here to-day. !
have conversed with number of them,
privates as well as officers.
The privates praise Gen. Pemberton in
the highest terms. They say they went
into Vioksburg preiudiced against him,
but.no man could have done more than
he did. One man shed tears when he
told me of what they had suffered, with
no rglief. and then for Vicksburg to fall.
The Yankees were led to believe that
If they took Vicksburg the war was end
ed, and they could all 90 home. and they
would remark 10 our troops, well, boys.
We can all 90 home now" A.
Jackson, June 10, $50 a. m.-The attack
on this city has begun. and our batteries
have finely opened. The enemy is evil
IDENTIFY in heavy force.
SECOND DISPATCH.
jackson, July lO.--Heavy infantry and
artillery skirmishing is going on.
The enemy are Smelling the city. Sew
eral soldiers anG civilians were killed.
There has been no general engage
ment here yet. Our troops are in excel
lent spirits, and if the enemy makes a
general attack, we are certain of success.
Every man is at his post.
THIRD DISPATCH.
Jackson, July l0.-Ieavy skirmishing
continues along the Clinton road. The
enemy are working slowly around our
left. The attack may not become gener-
al before Monday, though their troops
are pressing forward. But few men hurt
on our side yet. The enemy must be
suffering for water, as all The cisterns
and ponds are destroyed.
Thermometer 90.
Jackson, July l0--Gen. Johnston this
morning issued TO the troops the follow
ing battle order, which was read along
the line amid deafening shouts from the
soldiers:
HEADQUARTERS, ON THE FIELD,
July 0, 1863.
"Fellow,SohherS: An insolent foe, flush.
ed with hope by his recent success at
Vicksburg, conlronts you, threatening
the people, whose homes and liberty you
are here to protect, with plumber and
conquest Their guns may even now be
heard at intervals, as they advance.
This enemy it is at once the mission
and the duty of you brave men to chas.
tise and expel from the soil of Mississippi.
The Commanding General confidently re-
lies on you to sustain his pledge which
he makes in advance, and he will be with
you in the good work, even unto the end.
"Thevice of struggling he begs You to
shun. and TO frown OIL. IL needs be, it
will be checked by even the most suns.
mary remedies.
"The telegraph has already announced
glorious victory over the foe won by
your noble comrades of the Virginia ar
my on Federal soil; may he not, with re-
doubled hope, count on you, while de-
fendilg your own tiresides and house
hold goods, to emulate the proud ex-
ample Of your brothers in the East"
"rhe country expects, in this, the great
crisis of its destiny, that every man will
| do his duty"
Jackson, July ll.-Another day has
passed without any engagement. In the
morning the enemy threw force on our
right, ana threatened flank movement.
Featherston and Bufold were sent to re-
inforce and drove the enemy back. after
half an hours hard fighting. Buford
lost sixty men, principally the 7th and
9Th Kentucky. The enemy withdrew
from the right in the afternoon. and made
demonstration on the left centre. Dan
Adams Brigade repulsed them after
hard fight. 0ur loss to-day about 200.--
The enemy are still terrifying.
Jackson, July IL, p. m.--The enemy is
still concentrating on our fight, to reach
Pearl River for water. Our forces are
Just driving them back in the centre
We have burned the house occupied by
their sharp.shooters.
jackson, July l2.--The enemy opened
FIVE or six batteries on our left at u. m.
1t rained shells in the city.
The enemy made charge on the
Washington Artillery and Cobb's battery.
We repulsed them with heavy loss.---
Three hundred prisoners and three stand
of colors were captured. Adams end
Stovall's brigades acted CALAMITY. The
enemy are moving round on our right.
Scouts report Burnside crossing the
Mississippi at Byrdsong's Ferry, with two
Divisions. Col. Withers an old citizen,
was killed in the trenches by shell.
jackson, July 13. - The conduct of
Cobb's Kentucky battery and the Wash
ington artillery is spoken Of highly by the
commanding General this morning. Also
StovalPs Florida brigade.
The banners captured are Of the 2Sth,
4lst and SD Illinois.
Breckenridge sent in6rmary corps to
bring off the enemy's wounded. The
enemy's sharp-shooters fred on them