Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Missouri” in chapter 4, page 175 of Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3:
...sand horses for the same time, were now collected near Mobile bay, to await the possibility of Sherman's appearance there.
At the same time, A. J. Smith had been ordered with ten thousand men, from Missouri to Tennessee.
Transports on the Atlantic and in the Gulf of
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