The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - Confederate States of America |
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Acting Assistant Adjutant-General Adjt advance Alabama April arrived Asst Battery Blakely Brevet Brevet Major-General bridge Brig brigade Brigadier-General camp Canby Capt Captain captured Cavalry Corps Colonel Company Creek Cumberland Dauphin Island Davis detachment direction District Division of West duty E. R. S. CANBY Eastport enemy enemy's February February 16 fire force front Gravelly Springs guerrillas guns HDQRS headquarters horses Huntsville Illinois Infantry Indiana instant J. H. WILSON Kentucky killed Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Macon Major Major-General mand Michigan Cavalry miles Military Division Mississippi Mobile morning mounted moved Nashville night obedient servant officers Ohio operations March prisoners Private railroad rear rebel received regiment respectfully River road Second Brigade Second Division Selma sent Sixteenth Army Sixteenth Army Corps skirmish line Spanish Spanish Fort Tenn Tennessee Third Brigade Thirteenth Army Thirteenth Army Corps troops U. S. Army U. S. Colored Infantry wagons West Mississippi Wisconsin wounded
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Page 693 - To insure success, your cavalry should go with as little wagon train as possible, relying upon the country for supplies. I would also reduce the number of guns to a battery, or the number of batteries, and put the extra teams to the guns taken. No guns or caissons should be taken with less than eight horses. Please inform me by telegraph, on receipt of this, what force you think you will be able to send under these directions. US GRANT, Lieutenant General. *
Page 692 - Canby's movement will attract all the attention of the enemy, and leave the advance from your standpoint easy. I think it advisable, therefore, that you prepare as much of a cavalry force as you can spare, and hold it in readiness to go south. The object would be threefold : first, to attract as much of the enemy's force as possible, to insure success to Canby ; second, to destroy the enemy's line of communications and military resources ; third, to destroy or capture their forces brought into the...