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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Mississippi campaign. (search)
y of this Department fell back from Brandon in perfect order — slowly and successfully, The enemy moved his bodies of infantry, artillery, and cavalry, with caution and prudence, Lee hung upon his flanks and compelled him to move in compact column, giving him no time to forage or to depredate upon the country. in the meantime Gen. Polk, with all his acknowledged energy, was moving all his stores from points of the different railroads likely to fall into the enemy's hands. On Sunday, the 14th, Lieut. General Polk evacuated Meridian, with his little army, heavily pressed by an enemy thirty-five thousand strong. Before the evacuation, however, every article belonging to the different departments of the Government had been moved — The rolling stock of four important railroads had been saved — not a car was left, and scarcely a wheel left. The locomotives and cars be longing to the Mobile and Ohio road were safely housed in Mobile. Those of the other roads were brought to the Tombi<