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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 6 (search)
flicting a loss of eleven hundred upon the enemy, while his own was but a hundred and fifty. On the 2d of January General Sherman reembarked and ran up to Milliken's Bend. His fleet of transports disappeared soon after. Mississippi was thus apparently free from invasion, General Grant's forces having already reached the noand rejoined General Pemberton. To divert General Pemberton's attention from his real design, General Grant had left the Fifteenth Corps and a division at Milliken's Bend, under General Sherman, to make a demonstration against Vicksburg from the side of the Yazoo. This was executed by a slight attack upon Haynes's Bluff on the 30th of April, repeated next morning; after which General Sherman returned to Milliken's Bend, and marched from that point to rejoin the army. The union of the Thirteenth and Seventeenth Corps was completed on the 3d, near Willow Spring, where they waited for Sherman's troops until the 8th. The army then moved forward on two
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Letters. (search)
ain General Bragg's intentions, wants, and condition, compared with that of the enemy. Ask him for full information. The enemy did not follow. Can he not hold a part of the rich country northwest of the mountains and disturb the enemy's foraging with his cavalry? If he wants Roddy, he must take him. J. E. Johnston, General. Jackson, January 6, 1863. To The President, Richmond: Your dispatch of yesterday received. Enemy's troops and transports reported gone up the river from Milliken's Bend. We hear of no movement in this direction by General Holmes. Grant's forces are reported distributed at Memphis, Holly Springs, and Corinth. The country said to be impracticable. General Bragg reports he has been checked. I hear indirectly that he has withdrawn from Murfreesboro. Should he need help, and there appear no danger in Mississippi except by the river, could E. K. Smith's men return a The impossibility of my knowing the condition of things in Tennessee shows that I cannot