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| | Confederate Postal History of Grenada, Mississippi |
 | | The Mississippi Central Railroad, from Canton, Mississippi, to Jackson, Tennessee, was completed in January 1860, and the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, from Grenada to Memphis, Tennessee, was completed in July 1861. |
 | | After the secession of Mississippi on January 9, 1861, Postmaster Hawkins continued to operate the post office at Grenada, and after the state joined the Confederacy on February, 4, 1861, he continued in service as Confederate postmaster until the end of the war. |
 | | The two bridges of the Mississippi Central Railroad and the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroads across the Yalobusha River just north of Grenada were burned by the Confederates as they withdrew from the town. |
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