NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 22, 1863.
You need not call on
the navy for yawls just now. An attack from Johnston within forty-eight hours
is not improbable. Should the forces at present indicated be insufficient to
cope with him, your division will be withdrawn and sent to re-enforce them.
U.S. GRANT.
SOURCES: 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. 427
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