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The Daily Dispatch: June 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War in the Southwest. (search)
ns of long range and heavy calibre with which he can throw shot and shall into almost every part of our encampment every two or three tes, day and night as long as he pleases and because he has better water and more abundant supply than we have. The chief advantage the Federals will gain by the change will be the use of the entire line of the Memphis and Charleston railroad from Stevenson to Memphis. They are good workers and will soon rebuild the bridges over the Tennessee river and Bear creek, and those over the Ratchie and other streams west of Corinth, which the Confederates will doubtless destroy. As soon as these lost bridges can be rebuilt, Memphis and Fort Pillow will be occupied, as well as those sections of the Mobile and Ohio and Tennessee and Ohio railroad which lie north of the Memphis and Charleston road. The withdrawal down the Mobile and C road will diminish our transportation and bring the army into a more healthy section of country, where all since of suppl