Head Quarters, Dept. of the Ten.
Vicksburg Miss. July 15th 1863.
Maj, Gen. J. B. McPherson, Comd.g 17th Army Corps.
GEN.
Some ladies just in
from eight miles in the country applying for a guard at their house state that
guards are at almost every house through the country. That the negroes are
armed and wors[e] than the straggling soldiers. I wish you would instruct your
Cavalry to patrol the country as much as possible and bring in all guards and
send them to their regiments and all stragglers and armed negroes and put them
at work in the city. It is highly probable that most of the guards are self
constituted guards. In that case they should be punished same as stragglers.
Very respectfully
U. S. Grant
Maj. Gen. Com
SOURCE: John Y. Simon, Editor, The
Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 9, p. 53
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