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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, January 12, 1863

POST OF ARKANSAS, January 12, 1863.

We carried the Post of Arkansas yesterday and captured all its stores and garrison, and Brigadier-General Churchill, and three brigades of soldiers, I cannot tell yet how many. They now stand clustering on the bank, and will today be put on board of boats and sent to Cairo. This relieves our Vicksburg trip of all appearances of a reverse, as by this move we open the Arkansas and compel all organized masses of the enemy to pass below the Arkansas River, and it will also secure this flank when we renew our attack on Vicksburg. . . .

SOURCES: M. A. DeWolfe Howe, Editor, Home Letters of General Sherman, p. 237.  A full copy of this letter can be found in the William T Sherman Family papers (SHR), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556, Folder CSHR 1/150.