A dispatch from General Grant makes mention of large
captures of cattle coming east from Texas, and of munitions going south to
Kirby Smith. General Sherman is following up Joe Johnston.
A dispatch from Admiral Porter says that he, in concert with
General Grant, sent an expedition up the Yazoo and that it was a complete
success. Grant in his dispatch makes no mention of, or allusion to, the Navy in
this expedition, nor of any consultation with Admiral Porter, although without
the naval force and naval cooperation nothing could have been accomplished.
LeRoy telegraphs that he, with his gunboats, followed
Morgan, or kept on his flank five hundred miles up the Ohio River, encountered
him when attempting to cross the river near Bluffington, and drove him back.
The aspect of things is more favorable and it is amusing to
read the English papers and speeches anticipating, hoping, predicting disaster
to the Union cause. It will be more amusing to read the comments on the
reception of intelligence by the steamer which left soon after the 4th inst.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 379
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