The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-07-18
Tie Fall of Visksbara Additional Paruen-

Vics bnrg did not surrender on the tth of
July. Tho garrison cspitulated on the 81 ins
stsut, ts.wsen and O'Clock 2. NJ It ia
stated that Grant had made preparations for q
grand asssuis on the next day. From the
jackson taissI correspondent Of the Mobile
papers We have the folio wing accounts:
baye ccnvsrsed with some of the officers
who have copss oUt, and they say that when
the men rose from the trenches, where they
had been for. tbfyty e3ght days, uith0at srer
bCtng utaered sad marched out to stack their
,stas, Que thisd of them reesed ami staggered
like drunas msn ircm famine and exL Laasion,
ard many OF them fell 10 tho ground unable to
use again; but when the gums were stacked
and t1s Coior bearers marched mp TO hay their
taltered and worn banueTs Upon the ssa. ka.
then, aud not I'll thon, did they seem to knew
and fse' that ali that they had struggled aud
suffered for for Eiany long and dreary days
aiid wea ks waG !oet. All had been in vain,
gai men with famine written upon their fices,
TO which WAS now added despair, turned away
and @ept ike children at the eight of tho han-
ners they had followed 30 lopg and 70 well,
doomed never agaia TO iiatter tove them, tho
epsign If freedom end haired of tyranny.
Gen Johnston had reached the Big Rlank.
aud would have crossed a. daylight on Mon
day mors.ing but at 10 O'Clock Sunday night
ae received Information that Vieksborr had
fallen, asa that Grant was on the opposite
bank 10 d1sstite the passage OF the river. lie
in mnediately fell back to ---. clossiy pnr-
sued by ShorGaan's corps, who were constant
ly skirrnishiDg with our cavalry.
l. was nos ua,ii late on Monday night that
fha news of Ia, capitu'aiion reached General
Johnston then ii bivouac on the Big BACK
Had Grant besu the entoFprising General Ms
has Tho credit for, IL was in his power, easily.
:c have fsuked Johns;on, and thrown !, .aseli
between aim snd Jeekaon Had he oone 80,
Johuaton'a 4 Amy would have been cut Gil anu
iost It. was 10 prevent this that the latter
made forced Iaafch to Jackson. Gr5nts
slow movement enabled him to reach the 20
elton AID e st two days before the enemy AZ
rived.
Can Gen Johnston hold the posilioni 1t 10
tbs opinion OF some officers who know tho
ground that he can. On the other Land, il is
a nistler aimoGt of life and death TO the enemy
to take IT, AS al ihe battle of Psrryville, as
is fgatirg for .wsieF; and If he is repulsed,
and Ia forced to retire over the road which ho
came, it is diiiiool. 10 perceive how ba can "a
cape nerisning. Let us hope for the best, and
pri,y God tu vouchsafs Us q victory at 20 i'm
portaut a point. IL doss not yet appsar whsth-
81 Grant is ia person before jackson, uor III
lat iorca tgs enemy are. Perhaps bsfofe
there linz S are i'll print, al. these points will
be cleared III.
An officer down tho Mobile ara Ohio Road
reports that sHenty transports, win Forticn
of Granite troops, Went up the Iii2sssirpi
ate The fall OF Vieksbarg.
Last Friday evening, while Tees regi"
msus at jackson was Oh i,s way 10 ta-a tib
place OF d regiment doing Outpost duty, one :
!NiFaut's Laasked batteries Of four pieces Wa
opened Oh it. Within few minutes abou. I.
hundred and foisy were killed and wounded
Iae Texans were so ineensed that they rushai
peii sell coward the enemy and captured the
battery and ff.een os tie gunBers, and having
10 n6}ses til for the duty, they haraesssd
4 eas@i7Gs 10 ths cannon and brought thea
q. g4ig INTO our Iines This is the SORT Of msa
thag Jobneton has under his Command. Tley
hay be starved, bal not whipped.
The widest excitement exists among ths
oitzsus, who ase flying from ths enemy. Mum.
bars Of thea are leaving e7ery thing bel, nd at
the iaegey of the ensmy. The streets OF lack
eon are liled with stock and negroes, )eine
seut of icorn danger, whilst the planters fans'
iies are many oftasu', huddlsd together q OK
carts anti every speGiss Of conveyance.
THE Mssasspp,In office has toxed op and
gous 30 ths int9s.or. The spectators sse fran
tis a the loss OF hundreds OF bsSes o. cotton
nd hog shoada of suyas, ief- to tho enenay in
slead Of beiGs dealt 0as At fJar hundred prie -
t. ,hs families Of ths soldisrs