...nadequate. Could you not make a demonstration with a cavalry force on their rear? Another expedition having been reported moving across the country in a south-westerly direction from Pontotoc, Brigadier-General Featherston , then commanding Fort Pemberton, on the Yazoo, was ordered to move without delay toward Duck Hill, or Winona, and General Tilghman, then at Canton, was directed to hold trains in readiness to move to...