HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT
OF WEST TENNESSEE,
Savannah, April 5,
1862.
GENERAL: Just as my letter of yesterday to Captain McLean,
assistant adjutant-general, was finished, notes from Generals McClernand's and
Sherman's assistant adjutants-general were received, stating that our outposts
had been attacked by the enemy, apparently in considerable force. I immediately
went up, but found all quiet. The enemy took 2 officers and 4 or 5 of our men
prisoners and wounded 4. We took 8 prisoners and killed several; number of the
enemy wounded not known. They had with them three pieces of artillery and
cavalry and infantry. How much cannot of course be estimated.
I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one)
being made upon us, but will be prepared should such a thing take place.
General Nelson's division has arrived. The other two of General Buell's column
will arrive to-morrow and next day. It is my present intention to send them to
Hamburg, some 4 miles above Pittsburg, when they all get here. From that point
to Corinth the road is good, and a junction can be formed with the troops from
Pittsburg at almost any point.
Colonel McPherson has gone with an escort to-day to examine
the defensibility of the ground about Hamburg, and to lay out the position of
the camps if advisable to occupy that place.
I am, general, very
respectfully, your obedient servant,
U.S. GRANT,
Major-General.
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,
Commanding Department of the
Mississippi, Saint Louis, Mo.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
10, Part 1 (Serial No. 10), p. 89
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