HEADQUARTERS,
Army before Jackson, July 15, 1863—8.30 p.m.
GENERAL: Have sent a
brigade to Clinton to protect our trains on the road. Colonel Woods' brigade
and Bussey's cavalry will move up Pearl River at daylight to reach the point
where this cavalry has crossed, and will push Up to Canton and Big Black River Bridge.
Colonel Woods is notified that Herron is moving out from Yazoo City. If
Johnston is going to make a retrograde movement I hope to detect it promptly,
although the wooded nature of the outskirts covering the interior of the city,
also the camp-fires and burning of railroad ties have so filled the air with
smoke, that we can see but little; still, I will have the pickets notified to
watch closely and report any changes. All their heavy guns are still in
position.
W. T SHERMAN,
Major-General, Commanding,
Maj. Gen. U. S. GRANT, Comdg. Dept. of the Tennessee,
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. 527
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