... wagon train loaded with supplies, and a good stock of beef cattle and hogs. Brig.-Gen. W. Sooy Smith, commanding the Federal cavalry forces of the department of Tennessee, numbering 7,000, which General Sherman stated was superior and better in all respects than the combined cavalry which the enemy has in all the State of Mississippi, was ordered to move on Pontotoc and Okolona, Miss., thence down the Mobil...