| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| July 18, 1863 |
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| Serious Loss |
| The occupation of Jackson,
Mississippi, by Grant, places within the Federal lines all the
remaining rolling stock of the New Orleans, Jackson & Great
Northern, Mississippi Central, and Mississippi & Tennessee
railroads. We have information that the motive power is composed of
over forty engines. It seems to us that a temporary bridge might have
been erected over Pearl river within the last six weeks, over which
all this stock might have been passed and saved, and such is the
opinion of railroad men. Why it was not done is strange. What was the
Government superintendent or director of railroads in the Confederacy
doing? |
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