We heard that our wagon train went through to Jackson
without attack, and that the rebels evacuated the place this morning, with
Sherman's forces in hot pursuit. We hear that Johnston, after crossing the
Pearl river, burned the bridges behind him and is now in rapid retreat on the
other side. News came that Meade had taken Richmond, Virginia, together with
thirty thousand prisoners. Things are very lively here today — there is singing
and rejoicing.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 130
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