| From the Shreveport {La.} South-Western |
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| June 25, 1862 |
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| Doubtful Policy |
| We have had amongst us during
the past week an agent of the V. S. & T. railroad Vicksburg,
Shreveport & Texas RR} company, endeavoring to purchase
meat to feed hands, with which it is proposed to repair the damages
done to that road, by the late overflow of the Mississippi. We very
seriously question the policy of repairing that road at this time, not
being able to divine any material benefit it can be of to the public,
and at the same time seeing very plainly, if the enemy get possession
of Vicksburg, how it may prove of immense service to them. True, we
learn, the purpose is only to repair the road to Richmond, which is
within twenty miles of Vicksburg, but then, be it remembered that in a
few weeks, the finest public road, perhaps on the continent, will be
over that very twenty miles. Moreover gunboats and transports can come
within four miles of Richmond. |
| Besides, we are about
organising an army west of the Mississippi which will need our bread
and meat, and we say soldiers first, and all others afterwards. |
| Monroe Register |
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