The New York Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1863, Page 1

é* or 9749. VERY IMPORTANT. The Great Achievement on the Mississippi. Gags ered Cr com bfficial Details of the Battles at Baker’s Creek and Big Black River Bridge. he Rebels Driven Back to Vicksburg with the Loss of One Hundred Pieces of Artillery. . ucees sful Operations of Gen. Sherman. IGHT THOUSAND PRISONERS TAKEN, Admiral Porter Cannonading the City at Night. EN. GRANT OPERATING BY DAY. NO REST FOR THE REBELS. he City and all the Rebels Therein Taken. THE VICTORY COMPLETE. ort Hudson Again Bombarded by Admiral Farragut, &o., &e., THE BATTLES. Wasureron, May 24, 1863. The following official details of the battle of slack river have been received:— Mearns, Temn., May 23—11:30 A, M. on. Epwin M. Sranron, Secretary of War:— The following despatch has been received at ese headquarters, and is forwarded, as requeat- I. &. A. Huxuaur, Major General. &o. THE BATTLE GF BAKER'S CR-EK. Reak or Vicxspura, May 20—6 A. M. lon. B. M. Sraston, Secretary of War:— General Grant won a great and momentous vie- over the rebels, under General Pemberton, on he Jackson and Vicksbyrg road, at Baker’s creek, in the 16th inst. Pemberton had a most formidable position on e crest of a w @ hill, over which the road ses longitudiually. He had about twenty-five ourand men. The battle begam at .¢leven in the morning, d was gained at fonr.dclock in the after- | oon. Its brunt was borne by General Hovey's | vision, of General MeClernand’s corps, and by | encrals Logan’s amd Crocker’s divisions, of | neral Mcl’herson’s @orps. Movey attacked the and held the greater part.of it till two o'clock the afternoon, whem, having dost sixteen han- red men, he was suceecded by: Generals Boomer's 4 Holmes’ brigades, of Crocker’s division, by Fhich the conflict was ended in that part of the Boomer lost five huadred men. Logan operated on the sight, and cut off the | Might, and probably the town will be carried y’s direct retreat, so that he was compelled H b escape by his right flank through the woods. | lost four hundred killed and wounded. We abeut two thousand prisoners. THE BATTLE OF BIG BLACK BRIDGE. On the i7th, advancing to the Big Black, we ht Pemberton egain at the bridge there, and ptured three thousand more prisoners. He | ht in rifle pits, protected by a difficult bayou, of abatia. General Lawler’s brigade, of McClernand’s brps, charged the rifle pits magnificently, and more prisoners than their own numbers. nberton burned his bridge, and returned to cksburg with only three canuon oat of sixty that | had taken out. INVESTMENT OF VICKSBURG. Building four bridges over the Big Black, Gene- | || Grant arrived before the town on the evening } the 18th, and now holds it closely invested. He | 4 opened a line of supplies via Chickasaw Bayou, | wing cut the town off from Haines’ Bluff, which | abandoned by the enemy, and which General | rant will occupy. | There was sharp fighting through the day yes- | day. General Steele won and holds the upper blaffs d the enemy's upper water batteries, and gets ter from the Mississippi. General Sherman's corps lost yester” landred killed and wounded. General McPherson ** ve There is no doubt but that the rebels surrendered. wa * + Wad holds tive centre, lost General Blair reached Chickasaw Bluffs on P, 1 General 2 4cClerneand, who holds the | Tuesday, and was sent down for rations, weal ‘The federal loss is revorted heavy. , - r & ‘ VICKSBU RENEW YOR. ———— NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1863. RG 1S OURS. Investment and Capture of the Rebel Gibraltar of the Wrest. GUNBOAT ACTION — Le guitbomts kept the enemy alert during the to-day. There are from fifteen to twenty thousand men in it. from Catro—The Union Reported in Possession of en’ amd Chickasaw Dluffe—Capture of One Handred Gunes a Hight Thou- sand Prisoners by Gen. rman, d&e. Caino, May 24, 1863. It is reported that General Sherman bas taken Haines’ ond Chickasaw Bluffs, with eight thousand Prisoners, one hundred guns, and emmonition and commissary siores. The prisoners were paroled | and sent across the Yazoo. Another report #nys those points were evacu- ated and Sherman took quet posseasion. General Grant attacked the upper batteries of Vicksburg Sunday, while the gunvoate attacked the water batteries Tuesday; the opper batteries \ were captured and turned on the water batierjos, S/7ssiPPt The paroled prisoners who were brought acrees from Vicksburg, say our forces have possensi- the entire line of outer fortifications officers tell their men since the cr Bioff that there was no °° rebel force is ertir thirty thouse- among ** ad -aance of escape. wie of battle. ‘The Empress, the last boat up, says when she yay five | left, Wednesday evening, the fring had Ceased. a of , and rebel -ptare of Haines’ The wstted from twenty thousand to i. The wildest confusion existed _ sem. Officers were unable to keep the "SUMMARY OF EVENTS, Telegram from Assistant Adjutant Gene- ral Rawlins. Rean ov Vicxssune, May 20, 1963. The Army of the Tennessee landed at Brulens- burg on the 40th of April. On the Ist of May we fought the battle of Port Gibson, and defeated the rebels under General Bowen, whose loss in killed, \wounded and priso ners was at least fifteen hundred, and loss in ar- tillery five pieces. On the 12th of May, at the battle of Raymond, the rebels were defeated with a loss of eivbt hun. dred. On the 14th of May we defeated General Joneptt E. Johnston, and captured Jackson with a lows to | the enemy of four hundred, besides immr stores end manufactures and seventeer artillery. On the 16th of May we * decisive battle of * entire force of ton, war pir Me cen of seBehi the bloody and aaPcr's creek, in which the . Viekeburg, under General Pember » Gefeated, with the lows of twenty-nine ot of artillery and four thousand men. On the 17th of May we defeated the same force ot the Big Black river bridge with the lors of two thovesy! six hundred men and seventeen pieces of artillery | On the 164% of May we invested Vicksburg | closely. | To-day General Swele carried the rifle the north of the eity. The right of the army resta on the Mississippi above Vicksburg. Joun A. Rawiise Assistant Adjutant General. THE CAPTURE OF VICKSBURG, Wasninorow, May 24, 1863 The following despateh wae received by the President at noon: pite « CuEvecawp, Ohio, May 24, 1863. A despatch from Mr. Fuller, manager of the telegraph at Memphis, late in the night, says THE STARS AND STRIPES FLOAT OVER VICKSBURG, AND THE VICTORY I COM- PLETE. Ihave held this message, hoping to get the con- firmation; but the line has been interrupted, and I now give it to you as it reached me. wires will be all right soon. (Mr. Fuller ia the Saperintendent of Telegraph | ities as imeomparably the most important of the at Memphis, s, and hie despatches are,thoroughly re lable oye Mae g » . ~~ Information wet ais | Ly ‘" Porter co MY geceived that Admiral oft - operated ith Genera) Grant in the sieg: sick: berg, bis fleet cannonading the city and ¢ \ts works, «till in the bands of the rebels, by night, | while Grant's army assailed it by day, thes giving | the rebels within the town and intrenchments not a moment's relaxation from the perils of their eitaation. Me Winainorok, Mey %4—12 P. M. | Up to ten o'clock to-night the President had re | ceived no farther intelligence excepting a t'e- } gram from Mem Wis, dated half-past four this | saying:—Nothing later yet than the | ng report of the capture of Vickeborg PORT HUDSON AGAIN BOMBA DED. ternoon orn nation hat Infor | \ miral Farragut’s fleet was actively bombarding Ha THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON. the tory. Wasuirorom, May 24, 1869 ‘The news of the final eaptare of Vicks ter the rapid and brilliant series of preiiminary SeArrEnieo. a I think the | achievement. ‘ Iwo been received offieinily that | peen F i Piri i Mp 4 My Tyr. os HTS f=, Ye “OD * # i. 4 haa prodaced great enthusiasm and rejoicing here. Although prepared by previous despatches for the announcement of this result, the government and the people waited with breathless angiety for thy termination of the struggle at that point before giving expression to thelr joy. To-day's despatch removed all apprehension, and | Gen. Grant is everywhere lauded for his splendid | This victory is regarded by the military euthor~ whole war. It in estimated that it breaks the backbone of the rebellion and faralyze# the {i places Misys“ AY | whole rebel movement, Bes kansas and Texas at the mercy of the Union forces, shate out the main rebel armies from their usual kupply of grain, cattle and war materials, most of which were received throug! Texas, gives to the United States the control of more than a million bales of cotton and large quant tles of other productions, secures to the great Northwest the free navigation of the Mississippi river, and opens avenues for the advance of the Union armies into the very heart of rebeldom The on repomession of Vicksburg ix regarded here as worth more than the capture fa thousand Richmnonds. Just a year ago tonight treops were leaving foree General Banks, who hed this city 0 driven back by Stonewall Jackson, near Winchester Today the Southern sympa thizere ore greatly depressed," end may that the Confederate case in nearly ruined. They refer the fact that Jef Davie is considerable of « Keenlts of Gen, Grant's Great View | boasior, having recently seared the poople thet the pow at Vicksburg was impregnable les of New Orleans The Provident ie greatly satiefied with bis reten Grant, notwithstanding © calle the deonn before it sarrendere) n of Gener official organ ne a vietories wom by the galfat ormy of Gen. Grant ! tors, Me | May 1, at camp between Brownsville and 1 PRICE THREE CENTS THE LATEST REBEL ACCOUNTS. Unirxe Seares Fragsare Mrywrsora, H Ore Newrour’s News, May 24, 1863, Hon. Grovow Wet Lea, Seerstary of the Navy:- Sin—At half-past eight o'clock this morning the steamer James Brooks came down from City Point, with six hundred and twenty paroled-prison- ers, including eighty officers and crew of the In- dianola, The Richmond Enqvirer of the 22d inst. has the following under the telegraphic news head. — Montte, May 21, 1863. The apecial reporter of the Advertiser and Re gister, at Jackson, sends the latest news frome Vicksburg down to Tuesday night. In Saturday's fight we lost thirty pieces of artil- lery, which were spiked and abandoned. On Sunday the federals advanced to take the Big Black bridge. They crossed higher up and took ue in the rear, when ths bridge was burned and the works abandoned. Vicksburg is closely besieged, the enemy closing in on every side. General Loring bas assumed command of Jack- bon, No official confirmation has been received here of the crossing of the Big Black by the federals, or of the destruction of the bridge and abandonment of the works. Private despatches from Jackson up to the 22d say nothing of these events. Loss heavy. The Rebels in Richmond Despondent. Heapquanrers, Any or THE peat May 24, 1863, The latest published rebel intelligence from Vicksburg is, in effect, that Grant had crossed the Big Black above the burnt bridge and had circum- vented Vicksburg, taking thirty rebel guns. The papers speak mournfully of their prospecta in the Southwest, and hope that affuira there may prove less disastrous than reported. Affaire in Mississippi. [From the Richmond Dispatoh, May 22] ‘The accounts received from Vicksburg and the country Adjacent come (o us in ashape fo unintelligible that it te exceedingly diMoult to form anything like a correct idew of the real condition of affairs in that department, The fight preceding the fall of Jackson commenced at an early hour on Thursday, the 14th inst., at a point some eight Tnlies southwest of the city, and was conttrued nearly the | whole day. Our troops, nambering not more than nine thousand men, were commanded by General Jobuston, and tho enemy's force, amounting to botwoon twenty and thirty thousand, was commanded by Gyneral Geant. Overeome by superior uumbers, our forces fell back on Canton, twenty five miles due north of Jackson, situated on the wagon road, connecting thence by Vaidon with the road running dae east to the Yarn river, and loading directly to Vicksburg, some seventy milex from Jackson by this route, General Jobneton’s arrival at Jackson (which ccearred | on the day previoas to the fight) loft him no time t) prepare for the battle #0 early precipitated upon bim, ond bin rtabbora and well contested re fistance was doubtioss made under many aod seri- ous disadvantagos, On Friday, the day aubsoquemt to the fight, the caemy's cavalry advanced ax (ar as Urandon, twenty tnites this sido of Jace, 08 the Soubern raid roid, near which poin! official statement) re present wa had « lores AD ther, aad perbaps nore obstinate engagement, too Place on Saturday (General Jolneton, in fia despatch says Friday), near Edw.rda’ depot, in which, to axe the Language of the dempateh, “We whip, ed the enemy badly, until be was reinforced from Jackson , General Pembert.o then fell back to Big Wack bridge.” It will be remem. dered that Gener | Jot jospatch #lales that Geno fal emberton, after uine hour's bard dghting, was coum- plied to fall back over the Mig Black, but the state ment above, from the adjutant of a regiment engaged jn the juati@os the inference that he did not crown the road, but halted bis forces at tho bridgs, where it is pounib'e be may be able to make 4 euccemsful stand From the taleormation Wwe should, therefore, comelide we it# protectio that General Pemberton if till on the eaxt riteo° tho Big Wack, with the bridge undestroyed, over whieb, if competed to do no, he can cross Wo the wert side of the river ond destroy the bridge afte to place bim ta no very bax aswe sre assured that Vieksbu provisions, Tue despatch of General Johnston iy dated Monday, him, This would seems yomitiom, particularly 6 well eapplied witts vingston Brownsville i9 @ village in Hinds county, twenty miles orthweat of Jackson, end Livingston ts a village in Ma wnly, twenty miles north by weet of Jacke a words! depot, where the battle of Saturday wae fought, 9 00 the Vicksburg and Jackson Kallrosd, from twenty two lo twenty-five miles weet (row Jackson, and foarly milway between the latter point and Vicksburg The mention made of Geoeral Loring’s poriti m te the deapateh published yorterday in diDeuit to understand. Iiaays be was “on the left (which we understand to in the fine of bettie on Ratertay), was cut off, but « way through to Crystal Springs, twenty lve miles ot Jacksoo. What bu toms was ie unkoows wt damage he inflicte! upoa the evemy te forcing their fe not ataved. apgnee ° ponies an, e~? Buly Wo waderstand the exact peition we mont © tent UW await further acoounts, whieh may rom ' any motnent. la the meantime, ot we bare We Bee HOtbIng Lo encourage the belief that our fort Ue wissie sucessful, bul trom plant Affairs Around Jackson. From the mod Sentine!, May 22.) The remait of operations pear 2 4 far an they are known bere, does vet by any moans Gikerurage thone officers whe have personal knowledge of the inca! iter, | ead were sequainted with the expected ros events. ‘The bette coe ah Of Inckenon, tw tohomed by a gentionan who hae 08 behind the semen there, was conniheres an bikely to oe Wt MA MATY a0 the first Of Jane coma hemp the ROMY ut Wii hen, U wae dchatnarg worth by al me, be prewigion chowld tte ouppliee Ot Ot allowing campaign that thew detro, the in wn ler et for whe tao alrandant time for vading army. The piso of thie om had & reforen. bo the topmersphies! features of the conptry, #bich canny we nédertend withest & blood) informetie ot be be dorived frou tthe tage The enemy Were Qreatiy behind time io the deredt their appearance at Incteon abe miidin of May tnrtont A the Gert of Jemmary, They have (hereby mach fewer Gaye left them fofthe objecta they proprot agg pith «The neconsary be A their operat oe eo our mines A the diferent ne obi to 8 tonttor eo teen al the cours, ale thes ine of thee ( © depeed om U 4 Jobe Th fake the pecreeey ot wich must be ieft, with t ve can menwebile exercinn, v» these who have the managemeot ot it. We hope thal hore has tnen wo overvight, and tat wo rurprisn has teen sprang wpm wa by amy wnemeriad rapidity of move sneut om the part of General Grant Meanwhile the telegraph tells ox that our men are ight ing torat galiantly ad that grout mumbert, fiom gmerale cum to privaies, are wating heir patrtaien with ther eet Let them have thewe sympathies whieh they dh domer ve, tetend of the oritiolamna which we em or Aber ane than ignorsetiy. Lat the fer CONTINUED OM RIOWIH PAOR! pet yet