Dispatches from the West inform us that three attempts to
carry the city of Vicksburg by assault have been repulsed with heavy loss.
Johnston is on the enemy's flank and rear, engendering a new army with
rapidity, and if the garrison can hold out a little while, the city may be
safe.
Gens. Ewell and A. P. Hill have been made lieutenant-generals
and will command Jackson's corps. It appears that the Senate has not yet
confirmed Hardee, Holmes, and Pemberton.
The Washington correspondent of the New York Commercial
Advertiser says Hooker's loss in killed and wounded amounted to “over
23,000 men, and he left 24 guns on the other side of the Rappahannock.” We got
8000 prisoners, which will make the loss 31,000 men, and it is said the
stragglers, not yet collected, amount to 10,000 men! Only 13 guns fell into our
hands, the rest fell — into the river!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 332-3
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