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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Mississippi campaign. (search)
December, and scarcely had more than familiarized himself with the command, and had had but little time to organize his troops and collect together all the energies of his Department; and whether strong or weak by reason of his predecessor's organization, upon that and that alone, he must rely. Gen. Polk took the field. Forrest was still detached from the main army, and must remain so to watch the movements of Grier son and his command. Sherman with his 35,000 could only be opposed by Loring, French, and Lee. From Vicksburg the enemy moved very rapidly and vigorously on to Jackson, and from that point they threatened Meridian, the railroad centre of this department.--At this time Gen. Polk borrowed from the Mobile garrison two or three brigades to retard the enemy in order to enable him to save his supplies, which had accumulated at different points of the railroads for the past two years. It would have been the height of folly to have given the enemy battle under the circu