NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 23, 1863.
Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN,
Commanding Fifteenth Army Corps:
In addition to the
troops with you and at Snyder's, I have notified Herron's and A. J. Smith's
divisions to be in readiness to move at a moment's notice. In addition to this,
two more brigades can be taken from your corps without breaking the line
investing Vicksburg. Should Johnston come, we want to whip him, if the siege
has to be raised to do it.
Use all the forces
indicated above as you deem most advantageous; and should more be required,
call on me, and they will be furnished, to the last man here and at Young's
Point.
U.S. GRANT.
SOURCE: 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. 430-1
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