| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| December 31, 1862 |
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| Interesting Captured Federal Correspondence |
| Among the spoils taken in the
late surprise of the Federals at Holly Springs, were the following
series of letters, written by the correspondent of the Indianapolis
(Ind.) Sentinel, for transmission of which to their intended
destination he was probably awaiting an opportunity. ***** |
| Holly Springs, Miss. December
18, 1862 |
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| The ground is beautifully
undulating, and the well built houses and highly adorned yards indicate
both taste and wealth. Here were the principal depot and machine shops
of the Mississippi Central railroad the great road from Indianapolis to
New Orleans, via Cairo. It is, by the way, one of the best built roads I
have ever seen, not inferior to the Baltimore & Ohio. Its depot building
here is the best of the kind I ever saw, containing a large dining room,
and offices fitted up in a style of magnificence not equaled by anything
in our own city. ***** |
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