... ample time for the evacuation of the place, and the removal of such military property as we had the means of transporting. Fortunately, Major Mims, the chief quartermaster of the department, was in Jackson ; and, foreseeing, from the intelligence received the day before, that a movement was inevitable, had begun at once to prepare for it. Orders were sent to Brigadier-Generals Gist and Maxey, for t...