| From the Columbus (Ga.) Times |
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| January 21, 1865 |
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| The Loss of the
{Mississippi} Central Railroad |
| Capt. S. C. Myers, who reached
Grenada on his way home the day after the Yankees were there, and who
came down the road from there to Canton, informs the Brandon Republic
that the destruction to the road, and to property in the vicinity of the
road is very heavy. Every station on the road from Grenada to Canton has
been burned, every water tank except one has been destroyed, almost
every bridge and trestle has been burned, a large portion of the track
has been destroyed, and the company has but one engine and one train of
cars left in running order. At Grenada the raiders caught and burned two
trains and three locomotives, and a large portion of the town,
notwithstanding the fact that they only numbered about one hundred and
fifty men, whilst we had at least five hundred soldiers and citizens in
the place capable of bearing arms, all of whom skedaddled across the
river on the approach of the enemy. They carried off every able-bodied
negro and every horse and mule they could find along the whole line of
their march, and burned all gins houses and cotton and killed all the
hogs and cattle they could find. |
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