The distance was about three hundred and thirty miles through a hostile country.

His entire command could not have maintained the road if it had been completed.

The bridges had all been destroyed by the enemy, and much other damage done.

A hostile community lived along the road; guerilla bands infested the country, and more or less of the cavalry of the enemy was still in the West.

Often Sherman's work was destroyed as soon as completed, and he only a short distance away.
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee River at Eastport, Mississippi.