| From the Savannah Morning News |
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| July 24, 1863 |
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| Gen. Johnston's Army |
| Brandon, the present
headquarters of Gen. Johnston, is in Rankin county, and about fifteen
miles east of Jackson. We do not believe that Sherman and Burnside will
cross the Pearl River, for they well know the defeat that awaits them if
they march on Brandon. If our conjectures are correct, they will fortify
Jackson and endeavor to establish a railroad communication between New
Orleans and the Northwest, as well as by way of the Mississippi River.
It is stated by the Atlanta Appeal that the occupation of Jackson
places within the Federal lines all the remaining rolling stock of the
New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern, Mississippi Central, and
Mississippi & Tennessee railroads. The motive power is composed of over
forty engines. A temporary bridge over the Pearl river within the last
six weeks might have saved all this stock. But it is too late to
complain. We must recapture Jackson, and recover, not only all the
rolling stock of these railroads, but our true position within striking
distance of Vicksburg. |
| The editor of the Montgomery
Mail has conversed with an engineer who is one of the general
railroad superintendents of the government, who says that the disaster
is not so great as represented by the Appeal. He says that the
Yankees have yet the locomotives of the New Orleans and Jackson, a
portion belonging to the Central Mississippi Road, comprising in all
about eighteen engines; that the balance of the engines and the cars
were brought away and are being distributed wherever they are most
required in all portions of the country. |
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