, 1863-07-31
The War in Tennessee and
Arkansas.
Cur Tfcksb.lrs Correspondence
THE AIST ILLINOIS REGT.
mENT.


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month. The Regiment is in good conditio
numbers about 800 men. They are encampt
here, awaiting transportation.
Especial Dispatch tc the Chicago Tribuue:1
NlcKsruHo, July 20, via. Cairo, July 30.
Our army has fallen back from Jackso
Miss, to the Black River. jackson is entire
destroyed. The health Of the army is ye1
good. There are to be important moyemen
In q few days. Johnston is believed to |
1naking for Mobile rapidly. Our scouts 1
report. Heron and his Division hare go1
to Mobile. Ord with his corps came into IL
city yesterday. Sherman is encamped on B
Black. Considerable sickness prevails th
hot weather. The very best Of accounts con
up from below.
Ransom Is still ut Natchez. Els brigad
now division, is In the best Of health and spi
its and thoroughly recuperated. It will b
heard from ut other points from below befo1
long. The rebels seem to be making de-
perate and terrible effort to saTe Mobile,
DOW appears that Mobile Is to them nor
important point than was supposed. The
Seem to hold on to it with conyulsiye gras
cf mortal despair. There are supposed to b
some small gnnboats up the Cambridge river
but the only heavy iron one In Alabama il Il
the Alabama river, at Montgomery. Mont
gomery being tie depot, and place very de
eitable to hold for strategic REASONS, it i
/ doubtful whether they will bring this Iro,
clad down to Mobile.
It l. understood TINT Maj. Gen. Logan is tt
have an army corps when be returns. DR.
Mnd. Mills has been relieved tor the purpos.
Ct being placed on the retired list, and DR.
Jno. Moore takes his place as Medical Dircc
tor Of the army Of the Tennessee.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune,}
@EMH1s, July %. via CAIRO, July 80, 1858.
sent brief report By the Belle Of Mem
| phis this morning, to the effect that Johnston
WIS fortifying at about twenty miles from
jackson; TINT Johnston's rear and Sherman.
advance were only about SIX miles apart, nea,
Brandon, last Wednesday, md that Johnston
had been reinforced By Bragg. This came
overland, from secession sources,
1now learn from Vicksburg last SUNDAY
TINT Jackson has been almost entirely de.
siroycd, the State House and tew Others
cnly remaining:
Gen sbermsn,a army hal al ,on,. ,,+o
vicksburc, and it was understood that Gen
Herron's forces and part Of Gen. sherman's g
had gone to Mobile By another route than
that pursued BIZ Johnston. Mobile Is to he in
danger soon.
It was renorted at v;ckahurr Inst Sunday
that most Of the rebels pafoled at Vicksbu1g
had omit their of1{cers or1 pone home tet
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Yesterday 7 made .ome errors concerutno
Johnston's armv. which + will now correct,
The State of Mississtppi has been eiyen m
by the Confederates. Johnston has re,ooved
his army to creek or river twenty miles
west Of Meridian. He is said TO be fort,tyfnr
there.
Thrre is story Of pence party in Missis.
sippi favorable Of returning to the Union
upon the guarantee to>the people of their
rights, under the Constitution, for person.
property, and conscience,
Some say they would be willing to donnie
onc-laf their incomes from the production
OF cotton for tie next twenty years to lloui-
date the public debt If our dilacu1t1cs can
now be adjusted.
Johnston intends to make the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad, from Okalona on the north to
Mobile on the south, his line of defense.
Chalmers, who has been hovering On Cold
water, and intercepting persons coming to
Memph1s' Inns removed all his army stores,
subsistence. and all his ammunition, either to
okalona, West Point, or Meridian.
Tie forces lately at Pamela are moving
South. Johnston Is said to have received
large rcinforcements from Bragg's army.
Chalmers is now engaged burning cotton in
Mississippi, before fal,inr back. Manv farms
have been abandoned, and the slaves removed
to A1abama and Georgia, To such m extent
has this been carried on. that the Governor.
Of both States have issued proclamations far
bidding the introduction Of more slaves with.
IN their Jurisdiction.
Johnston's pickets are said to hare STONED
many negroes on the road, and tutnei them
back to Mississippi.
Everything reported aourishlng at VicEs-
burg: Our forces are now where they eau do
as much service as in holding deserted towns.
The steamer Empire Parish arrived from
Port Hudson, which city she left On Ffid1y,
9th inst. this morning at 10 o'clock. hrinr.
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