NP, MAP 7/18/1863

From the Memphis Appeal
 
July 18, 1863
 
Serious Loss
   The occupation of Jackson, Mississippi, by Grant, places within the Federal lines all the remaining rolling stock of the New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern, Mississippi Central, and Mississippi & Tennessee railroads. We have information that the motive power is composed of over forty engines. It seems to us that a temporary bridge might have been erected over Pearl river within the last six weeks, over which all this stock might have been passed and saved, and such is the opinion of railroad men. Why it was not done is strange. What was the Government superintendent or director of railroads in the Confederacy doing?

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