Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-06-09
WAR. NEW S

The aGVlC8S from choDttlg arc Ho ia'e1
than che dispatches published yesterday.
The New Orleans Era Of the End INST pub
fishes reports Of operations ar 'icksburg re-
ce;ve,} from uD the river, but OF course NOT 50
late IS those received direct
II relation 10 Port Hudson: the Fra says
iha1 sitter the severe fight on the 9Th the FED
ral troops held their position. and that the sege
was progressing favorably. No mention i
made OF Kirby Smith reinforcing the tionfed-
rates. ;.
!. den. Blair has returned from The cxpadi,,
ticu ia the country between the / aZoo ana
Big Black rivers vi thou5 encounterlnH any ;, OF
Gen. Joe Johnston forces hfty-sx 'n'te8
Of country were secured, and bridges, 2r.st
mills and cotton marked ~. ,. 4. de-
stroyed 4 large number OF negrJes cane
back With the expedition,
The Ninth Army Corps which accompanied
Gen. Burnside to kentucky, has been sent
with other troops. to reinforce Gen. Grant at
Vicksbv1g
The \. O. Era Of the 3lst Of May has
;liss,atch from up the river stating that Por
Ter S two fleets, one above and the other below
Vicksburg, were within three miles OF each
other and are in regular communication, ana
SUPPLIES Of III kinds are regularly received.
81 the 22ud, after hard fight, the. feet
eilenced ell the hill batteries at lcks burg, ana
then raked the wafer and upper bluff batteries
for TWO hours.
Grant and Pemberton forces are muzzle 20
muzzle, and Grant was mining the Confederate
works, Grant Was receiving relniorce1nents
rapidly.
\ jiisnatch from Niurfreesboro. Tenn, states
that band Of Contederates at Liberty has
been broken up By Col. Wilder, Of the noun
ted infantry He captured eli their horses
and sxty-two prisoners 1t is now ;. d lei:
that any portion OF the Confederate divisions
under Breckenridge and MoCoWan has gone to
reinforce Gen. Johnston.
An expedition to the Mattapony river Va,
On the 5th instant, succeeded in destroying an
iron foundry and several mills &c. West
Point on the York river, has been evacuated
by the Federal forces
The Correspondent Of the \. 7. Times,
writing from the rear OF cksburg May "a,
saws, THE Confederates interchangeable in
their efforts to strengthen their works. Every
morning reveals the erection Of a new wor|.,
The repairing Of an Old one, or the planting OF
batteries in new positions. YESTERDAY, morn
ing they agtonIShed our forces on the right by
opening upon them with TWO new g'1ns-one
smooth g. and the other rihed 50 FOUNDER
In fact, from all appearances, they are as busy
digging within as we are without; the morning
roar OF new gun from our side is usually
answered with defiance by some nlght-grown
battery On theirs; and in short, when We move,
they counter-n oye--qe mine, and they coun-
terlnine; andif we succeed in blowing up or
carrying their first line of Torks. we s.a pro-
baby dnd another Immediately IN It's real
The oy1ly thing which threatens 70 interfere
with the capture Of the place is a movement
unon our rear. That forces are being coneen-
tgs5ed with 8 view to such an operation, is a
eII-knovn fact; but TO how great an extent IS
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