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JUNE 14.
General DWIGHT:
General Grover's column is reported ready, and will move forward at once to the assault.
By order of Major-General Banks:
RICH'D IRWIN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
JUNE 14.
General BANKS:
Our skirmishers and sharpshooters are within 20 rods of the parapet; a ravine between them and the parapet is full of fallen timber, and raked by artillery on my right and left.
DWIGHT,
General.
JUNE 14.
General DWIGHT:
Grover seems to be attacking now.
RICH'D B. IRWIN,
Assistant Adjutant-General
JUNE 14.
General BANKS:
General Dwight cannot advance farther until the skirmishers silence the field batteries.
DWIGHT,
General.
JUNE 14.
General BANKS:
The Parrotts have made them haul back from their guns; none now in sight of them.
CHAS. P. STONE,
Brigadier-General.
JUNE 14.
Colonel IRWIN:
All quiet but sharpshooting. As the First and Second Brigades cannot retire, General Dwight cannot again at present. Shall throw up rifle-pits at dark.
FISKE,
Lieutenant, Aide-de-Camp.
JUNE 20.
Commodore PALMER:
General Banks wishes to say to General Grant that he has perfect confidence of success.
RICH'D B. IRWIN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
JUNE 20.
General BANKS:
I hear that Vicksburg has fallen, and that 20,000 fresh troops are in the rear. Is it true?
ALDEN,
Captain.
JUNE 26.
Captain ALDEN:
It is a rumor, and can be traced to no reliable source.
RICH'D B. IRWIN.
Assistant Adjutant-General.
JUNE 29.
Captain ALDEN:
The commanding general requests you to spare your tug, if possible, to take ammunition from Springfield Landing to Donaldsonville. Please answer.
RICH'D B. IRWIN
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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