Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-06-08
The Siege 6fvicksburg.

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our Troops = The Bombardment still
Kept Up-A Rebel Dispatch bearer Cap.
tured = Pemberton can hold ONT Ten
Days icks6urs on Fire from oar
ing Distance.
Official advices TO the Sd nstantwere received
here last night. The siege at that'tiue was
favorably progressing. Nothing OF importance
has recently occurred.
CINCINNATI, J une Adams Express Com
pany have advices from their superintendent
at Memphis to the Sd. The rebels burned the
gunboat Cincinnati On Friday. A bearer OF
dispatches from Pemberton to Johnston was
captured on. Thursday. His dispatch reads !:
"Forage all gone. Men on quarter rations.
Can hold out ten days"
On Friday General Grant ordered every gun
in position to throw shell into vicksburg. In
one hour thirty.six hundred were safely lodged
in the city. Effect not known.
CAIRO, June "A steamer from Yazoo on
Wednesday has arrived. The rebels have
burned the upper works Of the gunboat Gin
cinnati. The fire in vicksburg on Monday
night was caused by the explosion of our
shells. One whole side Of Washington square
was destroyed. The planting OF siege guns is
progressing. It was the intention to open
them along the whole line on Wednesday.
Our lines have been drawn so that in many
places the armies are within speaking dis
tances.
INTERESTING DETAILS Br NAIL.
Deserters from all parts Of the rebel lines
$4,000 strong; that the trenches and forts are
not relieved day or night, and that they are
now living on quarter rations OF corn bread
and boiled fresh beef. Their reserve is only
one brigade and a half The majority Of the
troops are willing to surrender the city. Our
shells are destroying the buildings, and the
inhabitants live in caves to escape death
Gen. Pemberton sent some families, with
their negroes, into our lines on the 18th ult,
but Gen. Grant sent the former back and kept
the negroes to work for us.
Our sappers and miners are progressing sue
cessiully with their work of gradual approach,
and in some places have reached within few
yards OF the rebel works. The rebel sharp.
shooters do not dare to fire, nor the men in the
rifle pits to show their heads above the works.
Our loss in killed and wounded during the
siege, which commenced on the Sth ult., will
not exceed 500 or {, 900, the rstaccounts hay
ing been greatly exaggerated.
The rebels may have to be starved cut, but
there need be no fears entertained of the cap
ture OF Vicksburg and its entire garrison.
A letter from Columbus (Ky.) to the Mil
waukie News, 30th ult., announces that the
9th and 18th regiments OF infantry and the I'd
Illineis and 4th Missouri cavalry were under
orders to leave at once for Vlcksourg.
NEAR VICKsBURG, May 27.-[Correspon-
dence N. Y. Herald l-You are aware that Gen.
Osterhaus was sent to the bridge across Big
Black river several days ago to illustrate any
attempted movement from the direction OF jack
son. The enemy has repossessed himself of
the capital of Mississippi, and captured our
wounded left three miles west, and also those
at Raymond. 1t is reported they are marching
upon Champion Hills and Big Black. At the
former place we have a large number of
wounded, who, il they are not removed at once,
will fall into his hands. Gen. Osterhaus mas
considerable force, and will doubtless see
n
Last night a heavy force, under charge of
Major General Blair, was sent out towards
Sulphur Springs. What is expected to be ac-
complished, further than a general devastation
of the country between the Yazoo and Black
rivers, and perhaps a movement upon the
Mississippi Central Railroad north OF Canton,
has not transpired. 1t is said that the oInni-
present johnson is in that region also, with an
army yariously estimated at from ten to forty
thousand men, preparing to attack some point
along our extended line.
Gen. Blair will doubtless attend to his case
if he is there, although scouting parties sent in
that direction have failed to discover the ex-
lstence of such an army. or, indeed, of any
army, except in the imagination Of the citizens.
CAIRO, June 3-Gen. Grant has set sappers
and miners to work upon the most eligible sites,
and they are fast burrowing in the ground near
the nest Of the Confederates. In fact-as tho
fact has been allowed to go to the newspapers
by telegraph there can be no harm in telling
it-mines are being dug and powder being
planted which, when sprung upon the enemy,
will probably lit up the solid earth and open
a gateway to their inner works. An immense
force is engaged in this labor, and its success
Is not suffered to be longer matter of conjec-
ture. The officers have seen and conversed
with do not have the least hesitation in saying
tn at in a few weeks at furthest Grant will have
bagged Elcksburg, with its entire garrison Of
from fl fifteen to twenty thousand men.
Gen. Johnston Marching on Memphis
General Blair up the YaZoo.
CINCINNATI, June 6.-Advices from Vicks-
burg TO June ,, contain no particular news.
General Grant is able to press the siege and
take care OF Johnston, who is posted still at
Jackson. His reported marching on Memphis
is not confirmed.
Our siege guns are close up to the enemy's
works, and playing vigoro usly on them and
the town.
On the LIST instant the rebels shot three hun
dred horses on the river bank, being unable to
General Blair is up the Yazoo. Important
news is expected of him.
REBEL ACCOUNTS.
FORTRESS MONROE, June 1.-THE following
appears in the Richmond Dispatch of this morn
ing:
burg yesterday. No firing was heard. Grant
is evidently preparing for move in some
direction.
[sEcoND DIsPATcH.l
JACKSON, June "A courier reports that
General KIRBY Smith crossed to Port Hudson
on Sunday The gunboats made a previous
sinking one steamer and drowning
seven hundred men. This is evidently canard,
as the rebels had no steamers there to make
.Star.] No doubts are felt in
regard to the result. Interesting details of the
fight on Thursday at Vicksburg are coming in.
General Grant used cotton bales for movable
breastwor in the attack.
General Pemberton mounted two hundred.
Founders and directed the fire at the cotton
bales, moving down whole platoons Of the
enemy. Our entire loss, including the action
OF Bakers Creek, does not exceed five thousand
Confidence in General Pemberton, since his
answer to Grants demand for surrender, has
been firmly restored.
No fears are felt regarding the result either
at Nicks on or Port Hudson
THIRD DisPATcH.1
JACKSON, June q, o. m.-Firing in the direc-
tion ct Vicksburg has been heard all day.
Nothing reliable has been received from there
since Sunday. The weather is cloudy and it is
raining slightly.
IRON CHARLESTON.
CHARLESTON, June Am Official dispatch
from Gen. w. S. Walker, st Pocotaligo, reports
that the enemy fired the town Of Button to-
day. Our forces engaged them and prevent
ed q further advance. A later dispatch from
Lieut. Col. johnson to Gen. Walker, says:
"We are now in Button, which place is in
flames. The enemy have retired. No one hurt
ctA Y,,t n The