| Headquarters Army of the Mississippi |
| Near Blackland, Miss., May 31, 1862 |
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| General G. T. Beauregard |
| Headquarters, Baldwyn, Miss. |
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| General, |
| ***** |
| I regret to report a heavy
loss of six or seven trains on the Memphis
& Charleston
road, loaded by me the day before I left and started. They did not
reach the bridges ordered to be burned by Claiborne until just after
he fired them, after sunrise the next morning. Finding they could
not be saved, the colonel very properly burned them. *** |
| Yours, most truly, |
| Braxton Bragg |
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