Monday, May 26, 2014

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General John A. McClernand, June 6, 1863

NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 6, 1863.
Maj. Gen. JOHN A. MCCLERNAND,
Commanding Thirteenth Army Corps:

I am going up to Mechanicsburg. Cannot be back before to-morrow night. Make all advance possible in approaches during my absence. Communications signaled to Haynes' Bluff will reach me.

U.S. GRANT.
(Copies furnished Major-Generals Sherman and McPherson.)

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 24, Part 3 (Serial No. 38), p. 387

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