FROM TENNESSEE: Important Expedition under Gen. Grierson; A Successful Raid on the Rebel Line of Supply (1/9/1865)

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FROM TENNESSEE: Important Expedition under Gen. Grierson; A Successful Raid on the Rebel Line of Supply (1/9/1865)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 1/9/1865

Posted on 01/09/2025 7:22:01 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Tuesday, Jan. 3, via CAIRO, Friday, Jan. 6.

Gen. DANA has received information from his cavalry force sent out from here on the 21st or December. They struck the Mobile and Ohio Railroad five miles below Corinth, and had, on the 27th, utterly destroyed it to below Oakalona. Twenty-nine bridges, a great deal of trestle work, thirty-two railroad cars, three hundred army wagons and four thousand carbines were destroyed.

FORREST's camp of dismounted men at Everona was dispersed. Six officers and twenty men were captured. The expedition did not lose a man. Gen. GRIERSON has orders to destroy the road as far as Meridian, and release our prisoners at Catowada if possible.

The New Campaign-Union Convention-Tennessee Clear of Rebels.

From Our Own Correspondent.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Thursday, Jan. 5.

All is comparatively quiet in THOMAS' army. The Army of the Cumberland takes a hand in sending Christmas presents, and tenders the President and the people of the United States 10,000 rebel prisoners, and sixty-eight pieces of artillery. The Federal loss in killed and wounded is small. During HOOD's campaign, we lost but three locomotives and nineteen cars. Gen. THOMAS was in communication with all parts of his army, and no place of any geographical or military importance fell into the possession of the rebels. There are forty-nine blockhouses on the railroad, between this city and Chattanooga, only four of which were destroyed. The trains ran from here to Chattanooga in eight days after the battle of Nashville. Not a blockhouse upon the Memphis and Charleston road, between Stevenson and Huntsville, was injured, neither did the road sustain the slightest damage whatever. But eight block-houses on all the roads were destroyed. There are one hundred and forty-four in all. These blockhouses are artillery proof.

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2 posted on 01/09/2025 7:22:49 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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From Tennessee: Important Expedition under Gen. Grierson – 2-4
From Washington: Mr. Francis B. Blair’s Journey to Richmond – 4-5
A Coincidence of Sentiment – 5
Editorial: The Foreign Protectorate – 5-6
Editorial: Sherman and Thomas – The New Campaigns in the Cotton States – 6
The Bankrupt Bill – 6
The Chances for a Draft: Important Order Respecting Quotas – 6
Later from New-Orleans – 6
Refugees from Arkansas – 6
The St. David Outward Bound – 6
Railroad Accident – 6

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