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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Mississippi campaign. (search)
s and depriving the enemy of the use of the railroads and other facilities for foregoing and subsistence.--The concentration of our cavalry on his column of cavalry from West Tennessee form the turning point of the campaign. That concentration broke down his only means of subsisting his infantry. His column was defeated and routed, and his whole force compelled to make a hasty retreat. Never did a grand campaign, inaugurated with such retention, terminate more ingloriously. With a force three times that which was opposed to its advance, they have been defeated and forced to leave the field with a lose of men, small arms and artillery. Both of their columns are retreating before the squadrons of our pursuing cavalry. The Lieutenant General commanding, officers his grateful thanks to the whole army, and trusts that this opening campaign of the new year, may be an earnest of the successes which await us in the future. By command of Lieut Gen. Polk, Thos M Jack, A. A. Gen.