The railroad bridge across the Tallahatchie river is
repaired now, and the first train came through today. The cars can run as far
as Oxford now. The quartermaster of our division has brought together at this
place about $1,000,000.00 worth of cotton, which is to be shipped to the North.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 87
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