| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| June 17, 1862 |
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| The War in the southwest |
| Memphis May 31, 1862 |
| The evacuation, retreat, falling back,
"going up" or whatever else you please to call it, of the
army of the Mississippi, from Corinth is now a fixed, unchangeable,
immutable, unsuitable fact, and as the thing is done, I suppose there
is no harm in saying so. The Federal have found it out, and our own
people need no longer be kept in the dark by the either in a mantle
with which the army officials have their operations. By this time
Halleck is "weeping, walling, and gashing his teeth," with
chagrin at having so completely failed. ***** I said there was no loss
of public property. Four trains of cars were destroyed, and six
engines; but this was done by the railroad officials, under a
misapprehension of instructions when the trains were left between Corinth
and Pocahontas, and the three bridges being burned which connected
these places, nothing could be done but destroy the cars. The loss,
however, is not great. We already have more rolling
stock than we can use. ***** |
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