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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], The great Yankee railroad raid in Mississippi--how it was executed. (search)
the Memphis and Charleston road, both of engines, cars, and machinery, were run down to Grenada by the Mississippi Central and Mississippian Tennessee roads, which it served to supply to the fullest extent with all desirable rolling stock. In time the Mississippi and Tennessee road was, too, abandoned, and its rolling stock transferred to Grenada and Canton. Thus the stock of these two important roads was transferred to a third. When the enemy pushed us back from the river and defeated Pemberton in the engagement at Baker's Creek and Big Black, and pushed on to Jackson, the rolling stock was withdrawn from the New Orleans and Jackson and the Jackson and Vicksburg roads, and forced on to Canton under the protective wing of Johnston, throwing the vast stock of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