NP, RD 8/29/1863

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
August 29, 1863
 
From Northern Newspapers
   ***** Cavalry expeditions sent from Vicksburg and Memphis met at Grenada — the object to capture or destroy the cars and locomotives run there from Jackson by the rebels. The rebels were on the lookout, and the cars were filled with fence rails, ready to fire on the approach of our troops. The train was run over the bridge across the Yallabusha, and the bridge burned. Fifty-seven locomotives and four hundred cars were destroyed by the rebels. This makes seventy seven locomotives and six hundred cars captured or destroyed, as the direct result of the Vicksburg campaign. *****

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