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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The situation in Mississippi. (search)
ppi and Alabama, thereby securing the uninterrupted possession of the railroad from New Orleans to Memphis, and redeeming the large belt of cotton-growing country lying between that road and the Mississippi river. This supposition would seem to receive strength from the fact that the Federal force is said to have divided at Morton, one column going North and the other South. By a light detour, these columns would again strike the railroad, the one at canton and the other at Hazlehurst or Brookhaven, while at the same time the Vicksburg and Jackson road is being rapidly repaired to the latter place. Several objects would be accomplished by the consummation of a design of this sort. In the first place, the navigation of the river would be freed from the interruption of our troops on this side, and in the second, the planters, assured of future tranquillity, might be induced to plant largely of cotton, which is now worth more than gold to the Yankees, while a new base or bases wou