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The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Two hundred dollars reward. (search)
t strategic points--one at Meridian, the other at Mobile — and these two points are connected by a railroad, (Mobile and Ohio.) Sherman is then to push eastward to Selma, Ala, and these operations are to give the Yankees possession of the triangle of which the three points are Mobile, Meridian, and Selma — a country of enormous valSelma — a country of enormous value to the Confederacy, and of equal value to the Yankees; for in the district between Selma, Vicksburg, and Mobile, there will be two water bases--one on the Gulf, and the other on the Mississippi — with four lines of communication by railroad and water, viz: From Vicksburg the Southern Mississippi Railroad, from Mobile the Mobile Selma, Vicksburg, and Mobile, there will be two water bases--one on the Gulf, and the other on the Mississippi — with four lines of communication by railroad and water, viz: From Vicksburg the Southern Mississippi Railroad, from Mobile the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers. These points are to be held, fortified, and made bases of supply and, matters being thus arranged, will form the second base in advance for Gen. Grant an invading the Gulf States, Chattanooga and Knoxville having formed the first. The tactician of Solferino exults ov