Saturday, December 25, 2021

Major-General Ulysses S Grant to Brigadier-General Peter J. Osterhaus, June 22, 1863

[Big Black, June 22, 1863.]

A pretty smart Contraband Just comes into our lines he left Mobile on Tuesday the 9th inst passed through Jackson thence he went to Raymond Utica & to our lines on the Edwards Station road there were but very few troops at Mobile & at Jackson either at the latter place not over two thousand five hundred men in his very circuitous route from Jackson he only met small patrols from at Raymond nobody at Utica

SOURCE: John Y. Simon, Editor, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 8, p. 406

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