. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . eight miles below. Onthe 4th, they met a Rebel cavalry force of about seven ^and men,under command of the Rebel General S. D. Lee, at Champion hills. TheUnion advance-guard was at first driven back, but their supports comingup, forced the Rebels back to the west side of Bakers creek, where theyoccupied a commanding position, but were driven from it about next morning, a brigade of McPhersons corps engaged them, andafter a sharp action, defeated and drove them to Jackson, twenty-
. The history of the Civil War in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion . eight miles below. Onthe 4th, they met a Rebel cavalry force of about seven ^and men,under command of the Rebel General S. D. Lee, at Champion hills. TheUnion advance-guard was at first driven back, but their supports comingup, forced the Rebels back to the west side of Bakers creek, where theyoccupied a commanding position, but were driven from it about next morning, a brigade of McPhersons corps engaged them, andafter a sharp action, defeated and drove them to Jackson, twenty-threemiles distant, inflicting upon them a loss of one hundred and fifty killedand wounded, while their own loss was but thirty. McPiiersous corpsmoved on to Jackson, where they were joined, on the evening of the 5th,by the sixteenth—Hurlbuts corps—the two having previously moved ondifierent roads. The Rebel force made their escape from the capital withsuch precipitancy, that they had not time even to destroy their pontoonbridge. On the 6th of February, the Union troops destroyed all the. ADVANCE INTO THE ENEMYS COUNTRY. 691 public stoves and arms accumulated at Jackson for the use of the Rebelarmy, broke up and rendered useless the track of the Mississippi Centralrailroad for some miles, and put the pontoon bridge in complete order forcrossing Pearl river. On the 7th, they resumed their march, and thoughthe Rebel cavalry hovered on their flanks, they inflicted no serious reaching Brandon, they found and destroyed a large quantity of Rebelcommissary stores. During the next day—February 8th—the Rebelcavalry continued to skirmish with the Union troops, but only lost a con-siderable number of prisoners by doing so. At Moreton, thirty-six miles from Jackson, the Rebel troops were founddrawn up in line of battle, but as the Union advance approached theyretreated, and one hundred and fifty of their number were taken prisoners,and some papers of importance captured, sh
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