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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sherman 's advance on Meridian — report of General W. H. Jackson . (search)
Sherman's advance on Meridian — report of General W. H. Jackson.
Headquarters cavalry division, Benton, Miss., March 21, 1864.
Major,--In compliance with orders from the Major-General commanding I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of my command, consisting of three brigades, commanded respectively by Brigadier-Generals Wirt Adams, L. S. Ross, and Colonel P. B. Starke, during the late advance of Sherman's army from Big Black to Meridian and its return to Vicksburg.
The enemy commenced crossing Big Black on the afternoon of the 3d February; were met by Colonel Wood's regiment, Adams's brigade, near Champion Hill on the morning of the 4th.
At the same time Starke's brigade was resisting one corps of the enemy on the Messenger's Ferry road.
The entire force of the enemy was about thirty thousand infantry and twelve hundred cavalry.
Heavy skirmishing was kept up until the enemy reached Jackson, on the 5th.
Ross's Texas brigade had been left on