NP, MAP 1/9/1863

From the Memphis Appeal
 
January 9, 1863
 
Northern Mississippi
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   We do not learn whether any steps have been taken to re-establish mail facilities to all points now outside the Federal lines, but if not, it should be done at once. Communication is, we learn entirely uninterrupted as far North as Horn Lake {Mississippi & Tennessee RR}, and there is no reason why the people of Panola and DeSoto counties should remain isolated a single day. Had it not been for the unwise act of our own friends in destroying the long bridge across the Tallahatchie, railroad trains could be run as formerly, to Cold Water, without interruption in a very few days; but the absence of this facility can be overcome, and the public who have suffered so much accommodated. Will not the special agents of the Post Office Department give this matter their earnest and early attention.

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