| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| August 21, 1863 |
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| The War in Mississippi |
| It will be seen by our special
dispatches that the raiding columns in Mississippi, are going north from
Yazoo City via the Mississippi Central railroad, and the other moving
south from the line of the Charleston road, have succeeded in effecting
a junction at Grenada, where, after dispersing a very small militia
force, the usual outrages, in the way of the destruction of private
property were perpetrated. Grenada was a handsome town of about two
thousand population, situated ninety miles south of Memphis at the
junction of the Mississippi & Tennessee and Mississippi Central
railroads. It was at the head of navigation on the Yallabusha, and was
built on the south bank of that stream. The two railroad bridges burned
were fine structures, that it will be impossible to repair during the
war. |
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| This success of the enemy, of
course, loses to the South all the railroad stock of which the
press has made such frequent mention. In consequence of seven weeks
being suffered to elapse without replacing the bridge over the Pearl at
Jackson, (which could easily have been done,) the stock could not be
brought below, and all that has not been destroyed between Grenada and
Jackson is above the Yallabusha and within the control of the enemy. The
amount of machinery was very large. |
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