| From the Savannah Morning News |
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| July 4, 1863 |
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| The Yankee Raid on Brookhaven
{New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern RR} |
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| From Mr. H. N. Gould, who came
through yesterday evening direct from Brookhaven, having left that place
Friday, we have learned particulars of the movements of the marauders
who destroyed the railroad train there. **** |
| The marauders only stopped
long enough to set fire to a train of cars, twelve of which were
destroyed; two or three others, with the locomotive, were saved. On the
road they picked up and paroled a dozen officers. From Brookhaven they
proceeded to Monticello, where they arrived Thursday morning, and
captured 60 militia, destroying their arms and throwing them into Perl
river. After crossing the river they destroyed the ferry boat. They then
started for Shubuta, up the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, but on their way
they heard of the capture of the Federal wagon train near Clinton, La.
***** |
| They also learned that the
train arriving at Brookhaven and finding the cars destroyed, was
proceeding on to Jackson, Mississippi, and in hopes of recapturing it
they turned back. In this, however, they were disappointed, and when
last heard from were making their way back to their original starting
point, with horses very much jaded, but they were stealing fresh ones as
they went along. |
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