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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sherman's Meridian expedition and Sooy Smith's raid to West point. (search)
nd even most of its tributaries — was in the full and complete control of the Federal Government, being policed from Memphis to New Orleans so thoroughly that it was difficult for even an individual to cross. It was essentially free from annoyance, even of field batteries and riflemen. This was fully comprehended by General Sherman, who previously, by General Grant's direction, had penetrated Mississippi beyond Brandon, pushing General Joe Johnston and his small force almost to Meridian. Raymond, Jackson and Brandon had already felt the Sherman torch, and monumental chimneys marked the localities of these towns. The country from Vicksburg to Brandon had already been laid waste and desolated, and beyond Brandon towards Meridian was a poor, piney-woods country, destitute of supplies for either army. Notwithstanding this condition of affairs (well known to Sherman), there remained at Natchez a large division of Federals under General Davidson; at Vicksburg, McPherson's Seventeenth a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
American Arms and Ammunition, A Personal and what came of it, Topics of the Time, Home and Society, and other articles are very cleverly done and beautifully illustrated. But we were especially interested in Extracts from the journal of Henry J. Raymond, the famous Editor of the New York Times. This number gives a vivid descriprion of his visit to Army of the Potomac in January, 1863, his private intercouse with Generals Burnside, Sumner, Wadsworth, and other officers, and a good deal of thurg, the plan of Burnside to cross the river again below Fredericksburg, which was prevented by a telegram from Mr. Lincoln, and the celebrated stick in the mud expedition, which was defeated before the column reached the place of crossing. Mr. Raymond tells a good deal of the dissensions among the generals of the Army of the Potomac at this time, and narrates a good many things which form pleasant reading for an old Confederate, and some of which we may hereafter have occasion to quote.