Jan. 19, 1864.
. . . General Grant
and wife start for St. Louis in the morning, and will be absent eight or ten
days. Fred is very ill, but will recover. . . . General Wilson also starts in the
morning for Washington to assume his new duties. May success attend him, is my
sincere wish. Colonel Duff left here on Saturday for Vicksburg with important
despatches for General Sherman. Yesterday a message came from him that he was
snowed in at Mitchell, Indiana. . . .
A collision between
our forces and the enemy on the 14th instant, consequent on the extension of
our lines out from Knoxville that I spoke of in a former letter, ordered by
General Grant when he was at Knoxville, resulted in the capture by the enemy of
a wagon train of ours, some twenty-three wagons, but they were subsequently
recaptured by our forces, together with an ambulance of the enemy loaded with
medicine, and the capture of the rebel General Vance, his assistant adjutant
general, over a hundred of his men and two hundred horses and equipments, which
ended the affair decidedly in our favor. . . .
SOURCE: James H. Wilson, The Life of John A. Rawlins,
p. 386
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