The New York herald., 1865-01-23
THE GULF.
Additional Particulars Of GrierSOn'S Raid
from Memphis to VickSburg.
Destruction Of Railroads and Capture
Of Prisoners,
&C., &c., 10.
Our New Orloan. Correspondence.

Our New Orleans Correspondence.
New ORLEANS Jan IL, 1864
raR PARTICULARS or oruERsoS's EXPEDITION IRON MEauD
UcKsnuRG
On Thursday afternoon last the cavalry expcdiHSea
under Brgadier General Grierson arrived al vicksbuyR
1t left Memphis the 2ist u and consisted Of thfss
brigadcs OF cavalry under ColoneIs Karg winsow aaA
0sband, in all numbering about three thousand men
NOZZLE AND ONO RAILROAD REACHED
Proceeding in the direction OF Boonvlle Il struck IL
Mobile and Ohio Railroad in the vicinity Of that town.
and continued far as Egypt station, destroying ho
track the wholedistancc.
PoKnoN FORESTS COMMAND DE1ArD.
Col Kargi's brigade in the advance the maseA
to Verona At this place they surprised q portion =
Forests command, encampcd The rebels eaaily
rcpuIscd Several prisoners were taken HIRE foas
thousand carbinas, three hundred wagons TIVE
railroad trains large quantity Of ammunition and
misary and qdartermaster stores In abundance were
captured The camp destroyed. Col Kargis bsi-
gadc consisted Of tho Second New jersey, Fourth Ms
souri, and the seventh Ind cavalry regiments and The
First Missouri Mount Rifles.
CAPTURE rRrsoyKRs AT EGYrr
sharp nght took place at Egypt Here WINS conc00r
trated the command OF the rebel General Ghoson The
rcpulscd with considerable loss In killed and
wounded After the fall Of their chief the rebels fed u
great disorder Five hundred prisoners captured
GSneral Gholson was among the killed
DFsTucrIoy or The sIssiir GNrfsAL RirRoAD.
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direction the country, for the purposs Of striking
tn Mississippi Central railroad The road reached
short stance below Granada and thirty miles Of the
track destroyed
OCCUPATION or GRANADA AND B,SKsrcS.
In the IN antimc force OF about three hundred men.
under the command OF Colonel Noble sent TO Ora
NADIA. Here several locomotives and about 1fty carS
destroyed.
At the same time Banlston was occupied BY our forces
md the nrgc cloth and shoe factories which have bcsa
employ ing 1--we hundr hands were destroyed.
no3Ds coMNuscAIlNs cur oFr
In addition 10 these brilliant achievements msy
safely state that all communication with Hoods army BY
rail vest OF the Mobile and Ohio aud the Mississippi Cen
and this being also the case by he route over the Big
Black by the destruction OF the Zig Black bridge
hood anu his army will faro very indlercniiy 10 sAy
the least, for time to come, IL Is known thA1
this army depended entirely upon the supplies VII q
reached II by these routes The cofntry also which
mainly furnished him with these supplies, is laid waste
This las all been accomplished by foro swthin fev
days aud with loss OF not quite Que hundred men -
killed, wounded and prisoners Nearly one thousanA
horses and mule and about the number Of contra
bands came In with the expedition.
PRISONERS.
Two lieutenant colonee, twenty i've line 0fccrS M
i've andred private are captured. Among The
latter several OF who had joined ths
rebel army TO escape from their terrible suicrings =
prisoners In the 'Georia jaii at Andcrsonville Thsy
were all clad most mscraby In rags and covered viii
dirt They probably the most wretchedy clothes
rebels that have captured during the Leutsa
ant Colonels Harris and Burke rebel field officers
among those captured
In the charge upon the at Egypt by the Seccue
New jersey Captain Gallagher, Licutenants Durd and
Burns and sixteen wero killed, and Licutenanie
Hoffman and Phillips wounded This rcl iment also lose
one hundred and ten horses killed Captain Henede, .
the Fourth Missouri cavalry, was among those captures
by the enemy.
coroSr wrN~owp AND osBAsp's COMMANDS.
The composition OF Colonel Wnsow's command wee
the Third and Fourth Iowa and Tenth Missouri cavalry,
and OF Colonel Osbands the Second Wisconsin, four11
aud Eleventh Illinois and Third United states coiorsA
cavalry regiments
I'VE nnrASCx nARrHYp.
The troops marched distance OF four hundred nils
through the heart Of the cnemys country, and may
truly be ranked one OF the most oren ana succs@
ful expeditions OF the war"