[June 8, 1863]
Col Whiting reports
that twenty five hundred 2500 Negro women & children arrived at Warrenton
last night from Grand Gulf the person having them in charge refusing to go on
to Youngs point on account of report that the rebels were within two or three
miles of it Col Whiting asks what should be done with them at Warrenton they wil
soon will eat us out of every thing[.]
SOURCE: John Y.
Simon, Editor, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 8, p. 322
