The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-06-04
The ;itautioi aG YicksbnrR

a letter to the Mobile Advertiser, dated
Jackson, Nay Oath, says that Gen Johnston
arrived there the day before. OF his move
mants little is krown, as he was seldom in the
| city. The letter Gays:
Slowly we receive scattering particulars of
a!!a rs at Vicksburg and I rejoice to saw that
they aIe not SO bad as first represented. Ga
Monday The Federals commenced feeling the
weakest and most vulnerable point of the
Vicksburg worhs-the approach by the Jack.
son road-and On Tuesday morning, at 10
O'Clock, advanced to the assault in q rather
cute and ridiculous manner They advanced
their flags cloee to the works, their negro
troops in fToLt and lay down. Bowen's gal
lant Missourians never fired shot The other
regiments then marched up, and the whole as-
sauliing cciumn, forlCrn hope and all, marched
within easy musket range.
at the word "Forward-Charge," they re-
ceived our fra, shatt ering and decimating their
ranks frightfuIy. They rallied closed up, and
stoodto it for thirty minutes, when they broke
and fed. They were rallied to the charge four
succs ssive times, and met with the same storm
of iron hail and leaden rain. The whole fisld
was LITERAL covered for one mile with their
dead and wounded where they were still ly.
lag on Thursday night nnburied, aud without
any attention, What a field of slaughter, srf.
feriBg, and anguish What cruelty in Grant.
where they fel-the dead to rot, the wounded
to suffer and die under the very nose of the
enemy. How cruel and beastiy to put the ne
yroes whom he had sedaced from their happy
homes and under the delusion of freedom and
Liberty, or by force, induced TO become sol
diers, and then put them il front of the battle
to lie meIcilessiy shot down by their former
masters and protectors, and then leave them
in the fret hour of trial to die, to rot, as SO
many beasts
Since Tuesday, from all can learn, the sn.
envy has contentod himself with eheliirg, can
nonad.ng and sharpshooting, ard they oeca
sionaliy succeed in picking eff some of our
men. AS the firing is at long range Pamber-
ton does rot reply.
On Tuesday morning Lieut. Col. Broun, of
tie 20;h Mississippi mounted Infantry, dashed
into Raymond and captured the place. .aking
four hundred Federais, and about SO or 90 run,
away negroes. Net g gun was hrad and no body
hurt. The sick and wounded were paroled; the
well were brought here aud sent east. Among
them were fOnle haf dozen Captains and Lieu
tenants. The negroes have been brought here
aI,d put to work on the fortfcations
The enemy i'd reported landing sao forces Of
Gen. Curtis st Snyder Biui. Grant has
mo cd his arsD ,,nrtfx Sas sssisrCau,
but few troops being below or IN the vicinity
of Grand Gulf, which is no longer his base Of
operations.
We have received the jackson Mssissip-
piau as late Sc the 27th, which contains no late
information from the besieged city. 1t says:
1t ia confidently asserted that in the series
of battles which have occurred since the Yam
kee army crossed to this side of the Missis-
| sippi it has lost net less than thirty thousand
men. Prisoners and da:ertels confirm this es-
innate. Ia fact, we ire inclined to belsve the
number largely underestim ted On Friday
last lac per private dispatch from an officer III
Canton this 1uorning) the enemys ioss in their
attack on the satrsnchaents their liDe being
| ten deep) is put down at twenty thousand
killed and wounded, besides tho loss Of two
gunboats out of the Yankee iieet which was
! be mbardiDg the ci;y in front
| On Saturday, as ws published yesterday, the
| attack proved equally disastrous TO the Yam
| KEGS. Ii is said by a negro, who has escaped
| from the enemy j lines, that their men are
| plenifuliy supplied with whiskey preceding
| their attacks or cur entertainments, and thai
they show strong antlpathy to approaching
tbs slaughter pen' until rendered reckless by
| intoXicatIon.
| Tie men also fully believe that Stoneman
| has taken Richmond, and that the taking OF
| Vicasturg will terminate the war. In Grants
general orders. read TO the troops previous to
| their first attack, this lying statement was en-
| braced among others OF similar nature.
| The Memphis Bulletin, more than week
| array CT staring capitals and sensation head
| lines, surmounted by cut OF a formidable
hooking rooster. Every contIivance which
| Yankee ingenuity and cuteEess can invent |:
| brought to besr in ordev to uphold the sinkinR
courage of their men and inda1e them to face
| the music of our battarias and The death deal
| ing voiieys Of rifle and musket in the hands o1
our determined and gallant ne II IN the trenches
| around Vieksburg.
! In the absence of snytiing like detailed
account of the occnrrenceS ia ard aToaDt
| Vicksnurg, We Can only cay that at the latest
| adyices all was going on we'll
| It is generally conceded that Banks landed
eight or ten Thousand troops ;st Bayou Sars
last Tuesday, and that hs proco eded III tue d
rse,ion of Port Hudson, and IL is feared tina
fplace, like Ficksourg, is now surroanded, aat
| perhaps more thoroughly cut of.
Gan Gardner will not permit hlmself 30 re-
main lie mined in at that place unless he i
overpowered by troops from tho north AM
| s:uth Of his position