{"id":2933,"date":"2023-05-19T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/2933"},"modified":"2020-01-25T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T02:40:02","slug":"jackson-mississippi-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/jackson-mississippi-evacuated\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">May 19, 1863, <em>Savannah<\/em><em> Republican <\/em>(Georgia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Brandon, Miss., May 16.\u2013Five gentlemen who rode to Jackson to-day, and traversed the place while there, report that the city was evacuated by the enemy about two o&#8217;clock.&nbsp; They are supposed to number about 40,000, and they retreated in the direction of Vicksburg.&nbsp; Firing was heard by the party in that direction, and they suppose Pemberton was in their rear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Before leaving Jackson, the enemy burnt the Confederate House, the railroad depots, Green &amp; Phillip&#8217;s factories, Storm&#8217;s foundry, Lenoir&#8217;s hat factory, together with a block of buildings on State street, including the Medical Purveyor&#8217;s and other government offices.&nbsp; Both bridges over Pearl river were destroyed, together with several miles of railroad track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>It is reported in Mobile that some of this burning was done by the Confederates before they retired.&nbsp; The Confederate House was burned by the proprietors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 19, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Brandon, Miss., May 16.\u2013Five gentlemen who rode to Jackson to-day, and traversed the place while there, report that the city was evacuated by the enemy about two o&#8217;clock.&nbsp; They are supposed to number about 40,000, and they retreated in the direction of Vicksburg.&nbsp; Firing was heard by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}