, 1863-03-26


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Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribuuc.1
MEMPHIS, March q, via CA1Ro a5.
Adrices from Greenwood are via Helena on
Wednesday afternoon last. The fight between
our steamers and the battery was not renewed.
Each party is busy making preparations for
the next conflict.
The Union battery is partially oreraowed
BY a rise In the Tallahatchic. The enemy are
Strengthening their position By adding guns
to their battery. A raft and three rams are
distinctly seen in the Yazoo, beyond the bend.
supporting the fort.
The new route to the Yazoo River Is work
ing finely, but description Of the route is
deemed contraband.
4 rumor las been going the rounds herc,
chiefly confined to eccesh circles, that IN
Thursday last another fight occurred between
the Greenwood battery and Union gunboats, in
which our battery was captured, and three
gunboats sunk. This isdoubtless purely scn-
sational, and peculiar to that part Of the
Memphis people, whose wishes 60 that VAT.
The jackson {A1iss.) Democrat says that
when the Indianola was captured the Webb
fired her 32pound guns at distance Of thirty
yards, making no impression whatever on
her. The Webb butted her, and lost five feet
Of her bow In doing SO. The Queen Of the
West was also severely injured by buttIpc
her.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Trlbunc1
MrRrnEEsEono, March Is, 1863
The Chattanooga RtdeE Of yesterday, SAYS:
Fort Pelnbcrton dispatches of March Goth,
say that Gen. Loring hns whipped the enemy
back from this point. They are now in full
retreat for Yazoo Pass.
The Chattanooga Rt5trs correspondent at
Tullahoma, gives M account Of grand re-
view by Gen. Joseph E. johnson, who had
assumed command Of tho Department of
Middle Tennessee.
The wife Of Gen. Braxton Bragg died at
Tullahoma on the sd.
CAIRO, March a+1 .. M,
To Hon. Gideon Wcllcs, Secretary Of tic Navy:
have just received communication from
Lieut.. Commander Brccse, dated Black Hawk,
March 18th. The Admiral has got through
SteeTs and Black Bayou with five iron.clads
in thu pass, and Is in Deer Creek, making all
haste for the Yazoo. Doubtless he is there
HOW.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.-The following
lsa special dispatch to the Bulletin Of this
city:
c1sc1SSA71-The Yazoo Expedition has
come to stand still.
The Commercial Of this city has special
from Greenwood, which says the Chilleothe,
In the Last engagement was temporarily dis
abled BY shot battcring tie sides of her port
holes, so that they could not be moved.
Battery Wilson has been dismounted, and
the guns returned to the gunboat DeKalb.
Ihe troops are now acting on the defensive.
on the Goth, and with good weather would
reach Greenwood in two days. The gucrillas
trouble the boats In that river and the Talla-
hatchic, and have killed three or four soldiers.
The Monitor gunboat Latsyet' Is reported up
the Yazoo, above Haines Bluff other gun
boats have gone up. Stirring news is expect.
cd from that quarter: The reported eyacua-
tion Of Haincs' Bluff by the rebels Is not cred
tied,
FIELD OF TIE YAZOO EXPEDITION.
The fnzoo expedition is not only ut present,
but is destined to be, an important and ab-
eorbinr topic OF interest. Upon its success
depends very much Of the results Of the ut
tackalpon Vicksburg, and our operations In
the Southwest. Wegivc the above cut which
serves completely rs guide to the localities
that have Of late become common phases In
the dispatches from Gen. Grants command.
The cut will show that the expedition found
its way from the Mississippi through bayou
into Moon Lake and thence into the head
waters Of the Coldwater and Tallahatchie
riyc1s. Through tortuous and narrow chan.
mel, the lotilla felt Its way down into the very
heart Of Dixie, n region before unrcached by
thcwar. ofthis region, an army correspond.
ent writes:
This river, the Tallahatchie, leads through the
most productive AMI fertile region Of the state o
Mississippi. 1te banks are lined with cultivated
plantations, Oh which cotton grows In abundance
land. "atered By the Talahatchie is not less than
seventy.dve Thousand bales (Which at present
rates Il worth thirty mfllions.of do1ars.)
"Thle region seems 10 hare known nothing oi
war before, and to have had no apprehension That
the dreadful eeourge would ever be brought to its
OWL midst; We have ecen. what have noticed
with life and labor.
On "Wednesday, 18th inst, the expedition
under Brig. Gen. Ross, which had moved on
swim,ningly through the intricacics Of the
Iazoo Pass and the Co1dwater River, came to
stand before tho rebel cntrcuchments nj
Greenwood, located rs shown In our map
This is situated at the confluence Of the Tal1a.
hatchie and Yallabusha Rivers, which form
the Tazoo. Our forces moving down the Tai
1ahatcbie, and the rebel Fort Greenwood e2,
tending across neck ofland from that stream
to the Yazoo, thus preventing our access tc
the Inter river, OF to the fa1labnsha. by which
stream the rebels hare direct communication
with Grenada
On "Wednesday our forces felt Of the enemy
exchanged cannon shots, and his idantE!
! drove the rebels into their intrenchment
| which arc inaccessible to us on account Of ii
impossible marsh directly in their front. 0,
Thursday, Ross erected Notifications ant
planted guns. On Friday, the 18th, he bonn
barded them Ill day, meeting with stubborn
resistance, our loss being only three or fou
! wounded. Here our advices leave him, an'
the question becomes one ofthrilling interest
Can he conquer them before he or they cal
get rcInforccments: Events will show, an
the mcagre Light Of our dispatches Is all tia
NO hare to throw On the subject.
Our map also shows the position Of the net
cutoff, by which our gunboate are now find
ing their woy down, theDcer River, into tn
Yazoo. There will be heavy work don
shortly.
| FROM ST. LOUIS.