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How Rosecrans' Army Can Be Reinforced From Vicksburg

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Day
2
Month
October
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Missouri Kejmbuean, speaking oí the facilities for reinforcing Rosecrans' army from the Mississippi, says : " With Vicksburg as the sturtiag point, there are, first, three hundred and fortysoven miles of steamboating to Meraphis, and next the soldiers must embark on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. The distanee frora Memphis to Chattanooga is three hundred and nine miles, but the road is not in operation throughoufc'the whole length. Trains run regul&rly to Ooriuth aid Julia, tho latter one hundred and fifteen miles, but it is not that a large foroe may have opened the road as for as Deoatur, some serenty miles further east. There sbould bythis time, be raüroad comrnunicatioa between Stevenson and Chattanooga, by means of the Nashville and Central road, tho between these two places being thirtyaeven miles. J3ut we can hardly rcukon on more than say two hundred miles, if so muoh, of railroad transportation between Memphis aod Chattanooga. Our readers raay farm an idea from tliis of the length of time required to{j transfer soldiers from the Army of the Tennessee to the Army of. the Cumberland SZST The foMuwuig patents were iísued from tho Interior Department for thfi week endino: 8pt. 22: To Gfabriel D; Parsons, of YpBilunti, for impvoved cros eut savving machine; to -August Lafver, of Biittle Oreek, för improvement in retnoving spikts &om guns.

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Old News
Michigan Argus