HOOD’S RETREAT: A Very Important Expedition; Gen. Grierson in the Rear of Hood’s Army (1/8/1865)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 1/8/1865

[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 of 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.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1861-1865: Seminar and Discussion Forum
The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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Hood’s Retreat: A Very Important Expedition – 2
Stoneman’s Great Raid: Details of the Great Raid into East Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia – 2-3
From Sheridan’s Army: The Experience of a Correspondent in Search of Information – 3-4
Army of the Potomac: Holiday Festivities – 4-5
From City Point: Improvements at City Point – 5-6
From Missouri: The Change of Commanders – 6
The Dutch Gap Canal: How the Work was Commenced and Prosecuted – 6-7
The St. Albans Raiders: They are Held for Trial – 7
Southern News: Spirit of the Rebel Press – 7-8
News from Washington – 8
Thirty-Eighth Congress: Second Session – 8-9
Editorial: Hopeless Expedients in the Councils of Rebeldom – 9-10
Editorial: The Rebel Negro Auxiliaries – 10
Our Minister in England – 10-11
Editorial: The Tenant-Right Question in Ireland—Its New Phases – 11
A Member of Congress Elect Seriously Wounded – 11
The Brooklyn Courts – 11
Local Bounties for Volunteers – 11
Arrival of the Gen. J.K. Barnes – 11

[budj]

"Oh my feet are torn and bloody, and my heart is full of woe,
I'm going back to Georgia, to find my Uncle Joe,
You may talk about your Beauregard, and sing of Bobby Lee,
But the gallant Hood of Texas, he played hell in Tennessee."

***Emily West, 1864

[vetvetdoug]

Forty years ago we could ride horses on gravel or dirt roads from Spring Hill to the Alabama state line. Many of the backroads then were the original retreat route for Hood’s Army.

[jonascord]

Not bad for a music teacher who hates horses...