The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-27
Southern News.

The memphis bulletin has important
information from Holly Springs, Missis-
sippi, to Saturday afternoon, the 10Th:
According to this report, Gen. Bragg,
with fifteen thousand of his army, arrived
there last Saturday about twelve o'clock,
and took possession of the town. The
Federal army had not occupied the place,
nor had they evinced n desire TO do so.
Only few companies were in the place
when Bragg arrived, and all retired to
the main body of the army, which is un-
derstood TO be near jacksonville, about
seven miles this side of Holly Springs.
Bragg Immediately made preparations
for the defence of Holly Springs. Pickets
were put out, and at last accounts the
Confederate and Federal pickets were only
short distance apart
The programme of the Oonfederates
appears to be this Bragg is TO endeavor
to draw the Federal army into fight
short distance below Holly Springs, and
Pemberton is to come up on the right and
Price on the left when, il is anticipated,
Gen. Grant will be annihilated.
1t is evident from this movement of
Bragg's that the Confederate authorities
intend TO stake everything in the south
west upon the result of this battle.
They say that they cannot afford to lose
Mississippi, and that they will not.
Bragg is reported to have said, that the
Federal army had built Notifications at
Corinth, jackson, and Bolivar, and he
meant TO make them live in them this
winter.
II is not proper for us to state anything
of the preparations which Gen. Grant
has made TO sustain himself against this
overwhelming force. That the govern
ment will give him an army competent
to cope with these 10000 men under
Bragg and Pemberton, we have no doubt;
and that he will so manage the means at
his command as TO ensure the best pos
sible results, his whole military expe-
rience affords the bestpossibe assurance,
From persons lately from the South, we
| gather few additional items
Blythe's cavalry battalion are enga-
ged in picking up all the conscripts that
can be found, and all the corn and other
eatables in and around Pamela county.
The railroad trains at the South are
said TO be crowded with the movements
of troops from point to point.
Jackson, Miss, is still being fortified.
| The belief is general that the great bat
| tie between the contending armies will
occur there.
The people Of Grenada are said to be
quite lively over the prospect which opens
upon them of having to move to other
quarters. There are some who are al
ready beginning to calculate the chances
and prepare accordingly; others will re-
main. The Appeal people, who have
been so ranqpdgeous where there was nc
danger, will probably be brought VI
standing with some whom they have de.
nounced.
The cars on the Mississippi and Ten
nessee Railroad now run only to Panoli
Station, some sixty miles from Memphis
All the territory this side of Coldwater
has been practically given up already
and Grenada may be expected TO b.
abandoned next,
There is no talk in Mississippi of burn
ing cotton in the localities which will
have TO be abandoned. They burnt eve
,, ry mans cotton in Tennessee. II wa
|, all right. But now their own OK is TO b
gored, and they claim exemption.
The people of Tennessee are represent
ed to be in special bad Odor with th
y ''overseers of gentlemen's plantations" i
. Mississippi. II is even said that poo
, soldiers in the Confederate army fror
Tennessee, have been denied crust {
bread by the women of Mississippi
( Such is the deep seated hatred of Ten
nessee.