The Cincinnati Gazette’s diapatch trom Memphis announces the capture by Gen. GRANT’s forces of Grand Gulf, Port Gibson and Willard’a Valley. Port Gibson is six miles in the rear of Grand Gulf. The capture of these places has given Grant possession of the Big Black river. The distance from the mouth of that river to the bridge of the Vicksburg and Jackson railroad is thirty-two miles. The Big Black is navigable for gunboats twenty-two miles.
If General Grant has succeeded in getting possession of the railroad, and thus cutting off the rebel line of communication in that direction, it has made the siege of Vicksburg all but complete. It in said in the Memphis dispatch that our forces were traveling overland, and on Wednesday noon, May 6, had advanced thirty miles up the Big Black river, and expected to go ten miles more that night. By Saturday noon they expected to be at Vicksburg.
Daily Ohio Statesman, Columbus, OH