IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTH: A Loud Wail Over the Fall of Jackson; The Rolling Stock and Motive Power of Three Railroads Lost (7/25/1863)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/25/1863

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FORTRESS MONROE, Friday, July 24.

The Richmond Whig, of July 23, says:

"The evacuation of Jackson, Miss., left in the hands of the enemy the rolling stock of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern, the Mississippi Central, and Mississippi and Tennessee Railroads. The motive power alone consisted of over forty engines. The loss is incalculably important, and wholly irreparable. Nothing goes well in the Southwest.

The Federal cavalry raid from Newbern, N.C., reached Rocky Mount, on the line of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, on the 20th, and destroyed two miles of the track. The bridge over the Neuse River, one thousand feet long, was burned, thereby cutting off communication for some weeks."

FORTRESS MONROE, Thursday, July 23.

The following is from the Petersburgh Express of July 23:

"From passengers who reached here yesterday morning, on the train from Weldon, we gather a few particulars from the raid on Rocky Mount, N.C., briefly referred to by us in yesterday's Express.

The gang numbered between four and six hundred, and came up from Washington, N.C. This is the route supposed to have been taken for Rocky Mount, though about the same distance from Plymouth as Washington. The roads from the latter point are much the best. Either road would bring them to Tarborough, a flourishing little town in Edgecourt County, about 18 miles from Rocky Mount, and where, until recently, the Government has had immense supplies of bacon, corn. &c.

The raiders reached Rocky Mount about 12 o'clock, meeting with no resistance. The small squad of fifteen or twenty men guarding the bridge over the Tar River, near Rocky Mount, of course, did not risk an engagement with such odds, but, we presume, retired in good order. They (the Federals) immediately processed to burn the depot, destroy the water-tank,

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Important from the South: A Loud Wail Over the Fall of Jackson – 2
The War in the Southwest: Rebel Views of the Prospects – 2-3
The Two Great Armies: Meade and Lee Reported in Rapid Motion – 3
Important Cavalry Expedition: The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Cut at Wytheville – 3
Operations Against Charleston: Reported Capture of the Whole of Morris Island – 3
The Movements of Morgan: A Brisk Engagement with Ohio Militia – 3-4
The Indian War: The Expedition Against the Sioux – 4
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 4-5
Editorial: The Last Prop of the Rebellion – 5
A Splendid Record-Our Southwestern Campaigns – 5
New-Haven – 5