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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Mississippi campaign. (search)
umns. Sherman left Vicksburg the 1st of February, at the head of thirty five thousand infantry, two or three thousand cavalry, and from sixty to eighty pieces of artillery. Almost simultaneously Grierson or Smith began their march through North Mississippi with twelve or fifteen thousand cavalry and mounted infantry. Mobile, at the same time, was threatened by water with the enemy's fleet of gunboats, and by land from Pensacola and Pascagoula. The question naturally arose with those anxihe department at Richmond intended it to be. General Polk with his band of heroes, retired safely to this place, ready and prepared for an emergency. The enemy, with his strong force of Western troops, marched through the centre of the State of Mississippi, nearly to its eastern border, and reaped a fruitless victory. Scarcely a grain of corn or a straggling beef repaid him for his toil, and to day he is a discomfited enemy, retracing his steps with as much haste as he invaded. The other c