Daily National Intelligencer, (Washington, DC) July 21, 1863 Issue 851; Col D
THE SIEGE OF JACKSON (MISS)
REBEL ACCOUNTS
Richmond papers of the 16th instant contain the annexed telegraphic dispatched from Jackson, Mississippi. They contain the latest news of the operations of our Army against the place.
Jackson, July 12 – The conduct of Cobb’s Kentucky Battery and the Washington Artillery, in the affair of this morning are spoken of in highly complimentary terms by the commanding General; also Lovell’s Florida brigade. The banners captured belonged to the Twenty-eighth, Forty-first, and Fifty-third Illinois Regiments. General Breckinridge sent the infirmary corps to bring off the enemy’s wounded. Their sharpshooters fired on them. Gen. B. then ordered the corps to the rear. The Yankees wounded and dead are still lying in front of our works. Their loss in the charge was fully one thousand. Col. Harry Maury, of the Thirty-second Alabama, was severely wounded. A Yankee colonel, two majors, and a number of officers were captured.
Jackson, July 13 – It rained hard here last night, and is again cloudy this morning. There has been but little firing on either side. The enemy have six batteries in position, which are plainly visible from the State House. Our troops are much elated at their success yesterday. Nothing of importance has transpired to-day. The status in unchanged.
Jackson, July 14 – Gen. Johnston sent a flag of truce to day to Gen. Grant, asking permission to bury the Yankee dead in front of our works. Gen. Grant asked permission to send assistance, in order that the dead might be recognized, which was refused. The terms originally proposed were then agreed to. Our troops have been engaged all the afternoon burying the dead Yankees. The exact number is not yet ascertained. A Yankee officer in charge of the flag admits to a loss of four or five hundred. Among their killed and wounded are Col. Earl, Lieut. Col. Long, and Captain Hall, of the Fourty-first Illinois; Lieuts. S. Smith and McMasters, of the Fiftey-third Illinois; and Lieut. Abernathy, of the Third Iowa. Among the officers on our side are Major Lamb, of the Twenty-ninth Georgia, killed; Lieuts. C. C. Brader, of the Nineteenth Louisiana, T. J. Rust, of the Fourth Florida, and A. B. James, of the Cobb’s Battery, wounded. The time specified in the truce passed before the burial of the dead was finished.