The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-10
FIGHTING AT VICKSBURG.
PARTICULARS BY MAIL.

About !, o'clock Yesterday morning an alarm
was sounded from the courthouse and many
citizens fastened to that place, but as there
being
SO IMMEDIATE DANGER.
retired to their homes.
About 5 o'clock the alarm was again sound
ed, and the citizen soldiery again gathered in
small numbers. About 8 o'clock, however
the court house fire bells rang out a general
alarm and from mouth to mouth-trom one
to anothe r-all over the city. went the iltelli-
gence that the negroes in armed bodies were
advancing on the city from several directions
Immediately in every street from almost
every house, armed men hurried to the court
house. and in half an hour a company of
about one hundred men, under command OF
Col Horace Miller, marched ont Grove street
and
NET THE NEGROES
inside the city limits. ut a bridge near Point
lookout, under command of Andrew Owens
Col. Miller ordered halt and himself rode
forward and advised the negroes to disperse
He warned them that they were violating the
law, and unless they dispersed to their
homes the consequences might be severe
Owens replied that he WAS there with his
followers. in response to orders from Crosby,
and would only disperse at Crosbys orders
Owens Was then permitted to visit Crosby
who was under guard at the Courthouse
and returned to his men with orders from
Crosby to retire to their homes. This they
apparently consented to do, but as the whites
We're retiring to their command. the negroes
dctantly announced that they had come
there for fight, and We're going to have it.
FIRING THEN COMMENCED
on both sides tue negroes fleeing after the
first few rounds followed nv by the citizens
with desnltory fire. Six or seven negroes
L, 1aI II,
wounded, and fifteen or twenty taken pris-
onels. This body Of Invaders" having
been dispersed, Col Miliers command re-
turned to the courthouse |
A little past ten o'clock a heavy body of
armed negroes was reported on the jackson
road, near the Pemberton monument. and a |
detachment of the citizen soldieIy was dis
patched thither, and there
THE MOST SANCTUARY ENGAGEMENT
OF the day occurred. The negroes were en- |
countered, strongly entrenched at the old |
Federal breastworks, just under the brow of |
the hill Immediately this side Of the Pember-
ton monument. The citizens opened skir-
mish fire upon them, which was kept mp for
more than half an hour without any effect on
either side. While this skirlnishing was going
on, Capt. John Hogan, with several white men
from the neighborhood Of Snyders Bluff, en-
route tor the city, came up on the opposite
Sluo u Tie IlllI, anu were UEou upon from al
ambush. Mr.. Oliver Brown, son-in-law Of
Mi. Snyder, was shot through the head, and
almost instantly killed.
Capt HOgan'S company and the citizens
then made a terrific charge upon the negroes,
who took refuge in a cane-brake. after short
and bloody fight. About twenty-five OF the
poor dupes and wretches were killed and
wounded here. After their first voley upon
Capt. Hogan's company they fired wildly and
oil TppIr IDCS n M nor 1tU To-,
was reported on the side of the whites
About the same time that the troops were
sent out the jackson road, another detacil-
ment Of two companies was sent
OUT CHERRY sTIERT
to meet body Of negroes approaching from
that direction. The negroes We're found in
considerable force just south OF TIE city and ,
while one company advanced in front, the
other made detour to the right, and a third
company (Which had gone out the Yazoo Val |
ley road and made the half circuit around the l
city,, came up on the left flank, and with .
yell the three companies charged, the negroes,
after few shots, scampering as fast as their
legs could carry them. They We're followed v
by the cavalry for some distance, and utterly d
routed. =.
Numerous bodies Of negroes were dispersed
on other roads by the cavalry, and by half
past IL o'clock scouts reported the negroes t
artillery was out. but its big mouthed talk !
was not required to convince the negroes that
it was q bad day to capture city.
There were reports in the afternoon that I
the negroes in retiring to the country were
depredating and burning houses, but nothing G
authentic could be heard.
IN THE CITY
Intense excitement prevailed in the city y
during the morning, and business OF every e
kind was entirely suspended. The gun and :; :,
stores We're besieged for arms, -
and were about the only houses open. At =
dark nearly all the citizens had retired to :,
their homes, only sufficient number being :.
still under arms to guard the city. 81
The Hera'Es representative visited the n
prisoners, among whom was Andrew Owens, .,
The leader of the Grove street body Of negroes d.
He asserted most emphatically that he acted 81 81
under the orders Of Peter Crosby the deposed f.
negro Sheriff. al
The Times, the Republican paper Of Vicks- "
burg, concludes its account of the conflict as "
follows: de
Whoever instigated this movement. and re
induced the more ignorant negroes of the
rural districts to suppose that they could pr
march into and take possession of the town,
should be held to an account for it, aud We
hope that sooner or later the real offenders
will be sifted out. One fact is, that there was
not a single town darkey in any one Of the
three divisions which made attacks. Where -
It will end is q question which puzzles the ~
mind of the oldest citizen. oe
PROCLAMATION OF THE MAYOR OF
The following proclamation was issued by
he Mayor OF Vicksburg .n
Whereas, It has pleased his excellency, Io'
Adelbert Ames, Governor OF the State OF Mis- ties
sissippi, to issue his proclamation setting tn,
forth that the citizens OF Vicksburg and War lac
ZEN county are riotous, disorderly and COM -.
Oined together by force OF arms and made ~
threats against certain county officials, where ma
BY said county officials were compelled to ,
lee for their lives. and that the State Courts