I determined, therefore, to abandon my campaign into the interior with Columbus as a base, and returned to La Grange and Grand Junction destroying the road to my front and repairing the road to Memphis, making the Mississippi river the line over which to draw supplies.

Pemberton was falling back at the same time.
The moment I received the news of Van Dorn's success I sent the cavalry at the front back to drive him from the country.

He had start enough to move north destroying the railroad in many places, and to attack several small garrisons intrenched as guards to the railroad.

All these he found warned of his coming and prepared to receive him.

Van Dorn did not succeed in capturing a single garrison except the one at Holly Springs, which was larger than all the others attacked by him put together.