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or assistance. Fortunately, they have been neither recognized nor betrayed. The Southern horsemen, instead of rushing on them and capturing them, disperse in the village; a few moments after the regiment which had left so unseasonably, returning at full speed, compels them to ride away as fast as possible and relieves the general-in-chief. A similar adventure, it will be recollected, had already happened to Sherman at Collierville a few months before. Decidedly, it was not the will of Providence that he should fall into the hands of his enemies. The latter, of course, were not aware of what they had missed. They were only concerned about continuing their retreat, for Polk with his two little divisions of infantry, still reduced by rapid marches, could not think of defending against Sherman's army an open town like Meridian. To quit company with the invaders, the best to be done was, therefore, to leave by railroad; that was the most rapid way and the least fatiguing. On the