Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-06-05

About midday another assault was ordered
I on the whole line. Storming parties of vol.
unteers and forlorn hopes, were advanced
;tunder cover Of ed batteries aud sharpshoot-
Fer, ands suppotted by brigades., The men
,Imoved br4vely and well into the held, and
fup to thSWorks; but all in vain. we could
mot take the works The mensdug steps in
THE earthworks with their bayonets, and
planted their colors on the rebel parapets,
I from whence neither party could remove
them, every man who showed himself falling
from the shot of rineman. Our loss during
the day was very severe, especially of officers.
.sa.y icksburg is defended in the rear by works
| fifteen feet in height, with bitches ten feet
fdeepl-the works standing on steep hillsides,
every approach protected by rihe-pits and
covered by artillery Tt cannot be taken by
assault, ut smal be taken. q II is a doomed
lcity 70 y'h]2.sS.s ~ s,g 9'1y''. ..,
r. This morning 4 mine under one Of the
forts, in front Of Sherman's corps, was blown
| up, and the site is now in our possession.
ti'Two gunboats returned last evening from
| Yazoo City, one hundred miles above, on the
Yazoo River The city capitulated. All the
Irrcbel government stores and partly burned
ram were destroyed. 49,. ss.A1
Iah0ur loss, SO far, is about 5000 killed and
wounded, perhaps less. The enemy's loss,
SO far, is notices. than / 5 900. There are in
our hands 1000 prisoners and % pieces Of
ARTILLERY The quantity ofsmall arms, ordi-
nance; camp and garrison cquipage that has
fallenainto our hands is very large. ., 80,
This is the total of our arny's work: In
sixteen days it has marched 100 miles, fought
five battles, taken the capital Of Mississippi,
destroyed all communication with the rebel
army AZ TuIlahoma, captured 1000 prisoners,
90 pieces Of artillery, 5000 stand Of small
arms, seven miles Of heavy Qualifications on
the rebel right, completely invested the city
in the rear, and opened for us new and per
feet line Of supplies. During those 16 days
the army had but four days rations from the
depots OF supplies. The army is in excellent
health, and confident OF success. ata-1 ~.
Before the second assault upon the enc
,ny's rear Notifications, Gen. Macarthur with
a portion Of his division crossed the Missis-
sippi near w airentewn, and after a severe
en- 90 cement drove the enemy and occupied
the heights above w arentown and below
Vicksburg.o 1000 ssa @Tom EnAa 22iFs@a
hHCoL' Humphreys, Of the 95th Illinois, was
in Gen. Ransom's brigade In the second
assault his regiment was hesitating; General
Ransom called out 70 him to move forward.
Dropping his sword in a salute to the Gen
eral, he ordered, Forward, 96th,n and fell
dead % The color. bearer was shot, and fell at
the same instant The regiment wavered y
Gen. Ransom seized the colors and advanced
In front Of the line three line officers left
their places came 70 the General and took
The colors The line" advanced, and those
colors were planted On the rebel parapet.-
During the same day, the colors of the 9th
Iowa were planted on a rebel parapet,- the
color. guard digging steps with their bayonets,
The colors remained in. that position seven
hours. Every man Of the 9th that attempt
ed to get near them was shot By the rebels
Every rebel that essayed to touch them was
winged by one Of oar sharpshooters The
9th brought away the flagstaff and about
two-thirds of the lcolors the rebels have per-
hnps one third. When colors are advanced
to such position that every hand that essays
tb feel the staff is winged, you can we'll I'M,
derstand that thereis sharpshooting. Nl'
The night after the first assault, Blair's
division were continuously and carefully re-
moving their dead and wounded from the
ffeld.i Suddenly a large hre was kihdled on
Che rebel rampant, and an officer inquired
What our men were doing. Being informed,
he replied, nWc built this fire to take your
wounded out Of Tire ditch-1drive your am
balances up, and you will not be rnolested"
Our wounded and dead were all removed,
the rebels keeping up the light sAsrs
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