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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], The great Yankee railroad raid in Mississippi--how it was executed. (search)
ated Pemberton in the engagement at Baker's Creek and Big Black, and pushed on to Jackson, the rolling stock was withdrawn from the New Orleans and Jackson and the Jackson and Vicksburg roads, and forced on to Canton under the protective wing of Johnston, throwing the vast stock of these two latter roads together in safety with that of the former three. Here, then, we have accumulated, for safety and from abandonment of roads, the rolling stock and machinery of five important railroads, viz: The Memphis and Charleston, Mississippi and Tennessee, New Orleans and Jackson, Jackson and Vicksburg, and Mississippi Central. When Gen. Johnston was about to move from Canton, for the greater security of this invaluable property it was sent further up the road to Grenada, and the vain hope seems to have been indulged in that the enemy were unaware of its existence of situation, or careless of its importance to our interests. It is difficult to conceive how such a great oversight could have bl
The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from the Notrh. (search)
et part of the rebel force near Pleasant Hill, and killed seven, and recovered a considerable amount of goods taken from Lawrence. A report has just reached here that Major Plumb and Major Nacher overtook a company in Lafayette, killing thirty. The total killed, according to the last report, is between sixty and seventy. Our detachments are still in pursuit. It is ascertained that Quantrell's whole force was three hundred selected men, who assembled from Lafayette, Saline, Clay, Johnston, and the border counties, on Thursday noon, at the head of Middle fork of Grand river, fifteen miles from the Kansas line, and the same day started for Kansas. Our scouts brought word that afternoon to the military station at Aubry, six miles north of the place where they crossed the line, of the assembling on Grand river, and an hour after their entrance into Kansas other scouts brought word to that effect. The information was at once communicated to all the stations on the border, and t