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ammunition April April 20 artillery Assistant Adjutant-General battery Bayou Big Black Black River boats Bovina BOWEN bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General C. L. STEVENSON camp Capt Captain cavalry Chalmers Colonel Columbus Comdg Corinth Court of Claims Creek Department DEPT direction dispatch division Dodge Edwards Depot enemy enemy's expedition Ferry force Grand Gulf Grenada gunboats guns HDQRS HEADQUARTERS Illinois infantry J. C. PEMBERTON Jackson JOHN July June Lieut lieutenant-general commanding Lieutenant-General PEMBERTON Major-General March McCLERNAND MCPHERSON Memphis miles Milliken's Bend Miss Mississippi morning move movement obedient servant officer Okolona order of Maj Panola Port Hudson quartermaster railroad re-enforcements rebel received regiments respectfully Richmond road Rosecrans S. A. HURLBUT scouts sent Seventeenth Army Seventeenth Army Corps Sixteenth Army Corps Smith steamers telegraph Tenn Tennessee Thirteenth Army Corps to-day to-morrow transports troops U. S. GRANT Vicksburg W. T. SHERMAN W. W. LORING wagons Yazoo City Yazoo River yesterday
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Page 538 - The people in the Mississippi Valley are now nearly subjugated. Keep trade out for a few months, and I doubt not but that the work of subjugation will be so complete, that trade can be opened freely with the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi...
Page 882 - Our being compelled to leave Jackson makes your plan impracticable. The only mode by which we can unite is by your moving directly to Clinton, and informing me that we may move to that point with about six thousand.
Page 74 - Whosoever relieves or attempts to relieve the enemy with arms, ammunition, supplies, money, or other thing, or knowingly harbors or protects or holds correspondence with or gives intelligence to the enemy, either directly or indirectly, shall suffer death or such other punishment as a court-martial or military commission may direct.
Page 160 - All sutlers and retainers to the camp, and all persons whatsoever, serving with the armies of the United States in the field, though not enlisted soldiers, are to be subject to orders, according to the rules and discipline of war.
Page 285 - I do not calculate upon the possibility of supplying the army with full rations from Grand Gulf. I know it will be impossible without constructing additional roads. What I do expect...
Page 877 - As soon as the reinforcements are all up, they must be united to the rest of the army. I am anxious to see a force assembled that may be able to inflict a heavy blow upon the enemy.
Page 584 - General Thomas has gone again to the Mississippi Valley, with the view of raising colored troops. I have no reason to doubt that you are doing what you reasonably can upon the same subject. I believe it is a resource which if vigorously applied now will soon close the contest.
Page 240 - The effect of a heavy demonstration in that direction would be good so far as the enemy are concerned, but I am loth to order it, because it would be so hard to make our own troops understand that only a demonstration was intended, and our people at home would characterize it as a repulse.
Page 297 - We must fight the enemy before our rations fail, and we are equally bound to make our rations last as long as possible. Upon one occasion you made two days
Page 180 - Whatever plan of action he may adopt will receive from me the same zealous cooperation and energetic support as though conceived by myself.