Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-04-29
THE WAR NEWS.

that on the night of April 18th, four OF the lar
gest of onr iron-cIads, mounting in all forty
| seven guns. accompanied by the six gun side
! wheel steamer Lafayette, the ram General Prize
and three transports, started upon the perilous
| adventure of running the batteries at Vicks-
burg, and with the exception of a single trans
port. aI passed through the ordeal safely,
| and before this have doubtless joined the feet
\ yNef Admiral FARRAGur 30 admirably arrang-
ed were, the plans of Admiral PORTER, that
| nearly all the vessels had steamed by the
works before they were discovered. On passing
| Warrenton the Admiral saluted the residents
with shower of shot and she'll. This gallant
exploit may be regarded as one of the most
important which has yet been achieved in the
Southwest and to the Rebels, who deemed it
not only impossible for their stronghold to be
captured, but utterly impracticable for our
gun-boats to eludu their vigilance 4fter being
once caught mapping. it must be disastrous
and demoralizing blow.
| The little feet under Commodore Farragut
bad an engagement with Rebel battery at
| Grand Gulf on the 31st March. The battery
consisted of several heavy guns sent down
| from Vicksburg. One Of these guns was
/ mounted steamer. The enemy also had
light field battery. The Switzerland was
struck twice, the Hartford once, and theAlbat-
r0s not at all. The casualty was one man
killed. They passed the battery in Is MIN
utes and anchored below Grand Cult. On
April lst the feet proceeded on its way to R ed
River-destroying many 1atboats and skiffs on
| way down. On. the 9th they went to Bayou
Sara, stopped, seized and threw into the river
about 10, 900 sacks corn, and started for Port
Hndson-stopping several miles above.
HEADQUARTERS, LOUISVILLE, April %, 1868.
The expedition to Celina was entirely sue
cessful. Colonel Graham reports through
General Hobson that they destroyed the town.
10. 900 pounds bacon, l 900 bushels of wheat
10 900 bushels of corn, 100 barrels of whisky,
100 barrels -four, considerable quantity of
sugar and coffee, and forty boats which had
been used in transporting supplies from Burks-
vile and other points on the Cumberland
The rebels report loss of 80 killed but Col
onel Graham the commander of the expedi-
tion is of the opinion that the number is great
er. We had one wounded and one missing
indeed it was a perfect success.
Tho vicinity of Corinth, Mississippi, hasA
again been the scene of Union victory, Gen
eral Dodge having attacked the enemy and
driven them from Bear Greek, stream which
rises in Franklin county, Alabama, and enters
the Tennessee River on the line between Ala.
bama and Mississippi, to Crane or Caney
Creek. Our loss was about oae hundred kill
ed and wounded The Rebel force at
Tuscumbia, a>few miles to the eastward of
these Greeks, is said to have been largely
reinforced.
On the 18th April, three regiments of in
iantry ard one of cavalry left Memphis to re-
connoitre, and when near Nocena the cavalry
encountered some rebel cavalry, fight en-
sued, and the rebels were repulsed. On the
10Th our men again attacked the rebels. and
killed 20, wounded 40, and captured 80 of
them. The rebels fed in great confusion
Another fight took place between the same
parties at the Coldwater, in which our loss
was 5 killed and Is wounded
By way of New Orleans we learn that the
ram Queen of the West, was re captured from
the enemy in Grand Lake, on the 14th. Capt
Fuller. her commander, and all her crew and
officers, mum mbering ninety, are now prisoners
at Berwick Bay. This is an important cap
ture, which will be of immense advantage to
the Union cause. The rebel steamer Diana
was also captured or destroyed.
From the Rappahannock we learn that Gen.
Stoneman's cavalry have returned to Warren
ton-having been out ten days without tents
or baggage train. The rains having frustra-
ted Stoneman's original designs, he turned
his attention to other points. He succeeded
in disp, rising Randolph's Black Horse cavalry,
ard took prisoner their acting commander,
Lieutenant Paine.
The Rebels who, for so many days, besieged
Washington, North Carolina, have, it appears,
either from disgust at their failure to starve
or capture the little garrison, or from appre-
tensions of early defeat, abandoned their po-
positions and batteries and retreated, thus re-
opening communication and relieving the u
nion forces at that point.
Two regiments of Arkansas men, one unarm-
ed who were stationed at Fayetteville, M ssou-
ii, were attacked by some four thousand rebels.
The rebels wefe repulsed with severe loss.
The unarmed Arkansas men fought with clubs,
stones and bowie knives, showing great deter
minati on and valor.
The expedition to Pascagoula, Mississippi,
heretofore reported, on Rebel authority, to
have been attended with lack of success now
appears to have accomplished. all the objects
for which twas sent, and that the landing of
the small force had the beneficial effec. ofpre-
venting troops from being sent from Mobile