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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], The great Yankee railroad raid in Mississippi--how it was executed. (search)
a on Tuesday, and brings an interesting but unusually painful budget of news. From his statement it appears that in addition to the forces from Corinth, an additional column from Memphis or LaGrange, and still another from Yazoo city, were suddenly precipitated upon the line of the Central road by the enemy, for the obvious purpose of destroying an immense amount of railroad property, invaluable to us, and inaccessible to the enemy for his own uses. The column from Memphis encountered Chaimers's command in the vicinity of Panola probably on Sunday or Monday, and owing to its overpowering strength is reported to have defeated that body, and, it is surmised, captured Gen. Chalmers himself. This accomplished, our forces were driven back through Grenade towards Canton, and a junction formed at the former point with the Yankees from Yazoo, when the destruction of the valuable properly commenced, and the object of the various expeditions was fully accomplished. The damage inflicted c