Port Hudson being ours,
and Holmes repulsed at Helena, the Missouri forces should be pushed to Little
Rock at once. Mobile should be attacked also, from the direction of New
Orleans, and, when it is taken, we could move on Selma. I fear the weather is
too hot for me to march to Grenada. Would it not be better to move on Grenada
from Memphis, and on Columbus, Miss., from Corinth, leaving me to fight
Johnston according to circumstances, and to destroy the Central road as far as
Canton and Big Black River?
Harrisonburg, La.,
should be attacked by a brigade. It would paralyze the Washita country. Can't
Grierson join me by land?
All is well with me
now. I have ten days' supplies. Will send my supply train to Black River, under
good escort, as soon as unloaded.
SOURCE: The
War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 24, Part 2 (Serial No. 37), p. 523
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