The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-06-09
CHE BATTLES IN MISSISSIPPI.

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rHE BATrI Els IN MISSISSIPPI.
Sl6wlv we receive scattering particulars OF
affairs at Vicksburg and we reJolce That my
are not 80 bad at first Represented;
a. Mo,d,v. the 18th ult., the Federals com
1901 feeling the weakest and most vulnerable
no;,t Of the Vicksburg works--the approach BY
ttbsJ,ckson road-and on Thursday morning, at
m o,c,ock advanced to the assault in rather cute
nd r;dicuous manner. They advanced their flags
close 20 the works, with their negro troops in front
and Law down. The other lines then marched up,
and the whole assautting coluan, forlorn hope and
all. marched within easy nusket rage
cs; H our fire. shatterisg and deeinatiDg their
ranks frightfully; they rallied, closed up and
stood to it for thirty minutes, when they broke
and fed They were rallied to the charge four
successive times and met with the saTe storm OF
iron hail and leaden rain. The whole field Was
literally covered with their dead and wounded,
where they were still lying on Thursday night IN
buried and without any attention. What Held
of slaughter, suffering and Anguish What
cruelty in Grant! His dead and wounded soldiers
were left alone where they fell-the dead to rot
the wounded to suffer and de-under the very
nose of the enemy. How cruel and beastly to
put the negro, whom he had sedueed from their
happy Aomes, and under the delusion of freedom
and liberty, or by force, induced to become
soldiers, and then put them in front of the battle,
to be mercilessly shot down by their former
masters and proprietors, and then leave them in
the first hour of trial to rot, as SO many beasts.
Since Thursday, from all l can learn, the enemy
has contented himself with Smelling, cannorading
and sharp-shooting, aud they occasionally succeed
in picking off some of our men. AS the firing is
Mt long range, Pemberton does not reply.
IN III off ka
Twentieth Mississippi Mounted Infantry, dashed
into Raymond and captured the place. taking four
hundred Federals and abou. fifty or sixty runaway
negroes. Not gun was fired, and "nobody hurt"
The sick and wounded were paroled the we'll were
brought here and paroled. Among them were
some half dozen Captains and Lieusfsants. The
negroes hare been brought here andApht to work
on the Notifications.
We regret to say that every report from Vicks-
burg tells an ugly story about some Georgia regi-
nents in the battle of Bakers Creek. They are
said to have showed the white feather and at
the first fire. This won't do for Georgia. The
report comes from so many reliable sources that
believe il to be true. 1t was their first battle
they were fighting Grants best troops, aud we're
in hot place.
JACKSON, May 27-The news from Vicksburg
10 cheering and affairs wearing a more hopeful
and confident face The Federals have made
seven desperate assaults upon our works, and
have been each time repulsed with immense
slaughter. All accounts represent that it has no
equal in the war. The Federal officers are said to
have represented to their men that Richmond had
been captured by Hooker, and that the only rebel
stronghold the city of Vieksburg, before
which they were drawn up in battle array, and
that by determination and holiness in their charge
they might take the place and at once end the
war. The troops did as they were commanded
their charges were not only stubborn but desperate,
hence tho immense hills of Yankee dead that now
cover the face of the earth, awaiting sculpture,
and poisoning the atmosphere by the horrid
stencil Of their. thousands of carcasses. Our off
GERS estimate the enemys loss from ten to twenty
five thousand in killed and wounded 4 North
Cafelna Federal deserter came in last night, and
tells the same story, and says that Grants loss is
estimated in camp at from ten to thirty thousand
men. The Wilderness of the margin in the esti-
mates will give you faint idea of the punish
ment that the enemy has received, and of the
immense strength of Vicksburg, and the heroism
of its defenders. Our aown loss is very small,
hardly two hundred. So much for good Sentrench-
ments,
From the Yazoo can learn but little, and from
that little draw sigh of relief The enemy
went up the river as far as Yagoo City, and COM
mitted good many peculatons Commodore
Brown (Confederate) sunk four boats in the river,
which sufficiently obstructed it to prevent fhe
enemy going any farther up. The navy yard was
burnt Cor. Mobile AaUertiser.
The Jackson Missssippian says: 'sWelearn from
u gentleman who arrived from Vicksburg, that
the most stubborn battle of the series around tina
devoted place was on Saturday, the 23d, in which
the Federas we're repulsed with terrible slaughter,
our boys literally piling up their dead bodies 10
heaps
It is said that Gen. Pemberton has been COM
PEELED to burn tar and other disnfectants in order
to his troops from the i'll effects of the efu
via of the dead bodies of the Yankees that lie rot
ting in the sun in front Of his works 1t is hard
to account for Federal neglect of such an act of
common deceEcy and humanity as the burial of
their dead. The 81 ght of them cannot be either
pleasant or encouraging to the survivors, and will
not render them over-anxious to advance against
strong position, when the terrible results of
former failures are SO plainly before them"
Thu Mobile Advertiser says: "If the later ports
OF the assault on Saturday are correct Grants
army must now be badly cut up, and unless he has
been very greatly reinforced, it would appear that
the present is Gen. Johnston's opportunity to
move on and attack him in the rear The loss of
fifteen or twenty thousand men in one assault
would be sufficient TO demoralize almost any BODY
of men in the world, especially if they were with
in the enemy's countryy and Grants army must be
suffering greatly in this respect The desperate
assault which Grant il making upon our work
will hasten the time Of his discontinue, as each
Successive repulse pust leave him weaker than