Statistics for occurrence #1 of “General Smith” in chapter 13, page 457 of Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler:
...fend it for awhile to hold the enemy at bay, but it must follow ere long the fate of Fort Pillow.
How important Davis thought Vicksburg was, is shown by his letter of the 14th of June, 1862, to General Smith , commanding at Vicksburg:--
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