Saturday, December 25, 2021

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Francis J. Herron, June 22, 1863

NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 22, 1863.

Maj. Gen. F. J. HERRON, Commanding Left, investing Forces:

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 Should the forces at present indicated be insufficient to cope with him, your division will be withdrawn and sent to re-enforce them.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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