A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala., states that the enemy have
penetrated as far as Enterprise, Miss., where we had a small body of troops,
conscripts. If this be merely a raid, it is an extraordinary one, and I feel
some anxiety to learn the conclusion of it. It is hard to suppose a small force
of the enemy would evince such temerity. But if it be supported by an army, and
the position maintained, Vicksburg is doomed. We shall get no more sugar from
Louisiana.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 300
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