June 3, 1863, The New York Herald
The latest news from Vicksburg is to the 29th ult., last Friday. No change in the condition of affairs there had occurred, but the prospects of General Grant were regarded as […..].” News from Memphis to the 1st inst. recounts the destruction of the United States gunboat Cincinnati by the fire of the rebel batteries on the 26th ult., and the loss of from fifteen to forty killed and wounded.
The rebel newspapers up to the 30th ult. do not speak very hopefully of their prospects at Vicksburg.
No important movement has taken place on the Rappahannock. The rebel journals, however, talk of a change of base on the part of General Hooker, insinuate that his headquarters have been changed and assert that large bodies of his troops have moved down in the direction of Port Royal, &c.
Our New Orleans news today by the steamships Creole and United States is very interesting, relating chiefly to the practical and successful operations of General Banks. He was closing upon Port Hudson and so enveloping it in his toils that its capture was almost certain.
It appears that the rebel authorities refuse to parole the officers of Colonel Streight’s command recently captured near Rome, Georgia; but still retain them as prisoners of war at Richmond.
Our forces in Alabama have been accomplishing something of importance recently. A despatch from Cincinnati, dated yesterday, says that Colonel Cornyn defeated General Roddy at Florence, Alabama, on the 27th ult., capturing one hundred men, eight officers, four hundred mules and three hundred negroes. Colonel Cornyn then proceeded northward, destroying foundries, mills and everything else useful to the enemy that he could lay his hands on.