... During the fall of 1861, the forces under General Polk, at Columbus and thence down to Island No.10, included the batteries of Hudson and Melancthon Smith; the First Mississippi cavalry battalion, Lieut.-Col. John H. Miller , including the companies of Captains Hudson, Cole and Klein, besides Miller's original battalion: Col. A. K. Blythe's Mississippi regiment of infantry; the Thirteenth and Twenty-second regiments, and...