[Big Black, June 22,
1863.]
A pretty smart Contraband
Just comes into our lines he left Mobile on Tuesday the 9th inst passed through
Jackson thence he went to Raymond Utica & to our lines on the Edwards
Station road there were but very few troops at Mobile & at Jackson either
at the latter place not over two thousand five hundred men in his very
circuitous route from Jackson he only met small patrols from at Raymond
nobody at Utica
SOURCE: John Y.
Simon, Editor, The Papers of Ulysses S.
Grant, Volume 8, p. 406
