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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
th of the Mississippi who had been at all drilled. Leaving the others under the command of General Chalmers, he had thus succeeded in forming a corps of four thousand mounted men, with whom he had goll number that remained with him consisted partly of recruits which Van Dorn had left under General Chalmers between Grenada and Oxford, and of Wirt Adams' brigade, which was encamped in the vicinity o doing he deprived himself of soldiers who would have been of great utility to him elsewhere. Chalmers' mounted men were pushed forward in the direction of Corinth, in order to compel Grierson to cotunate. He was surprised on the same day at Hernando by a second Confederate column, under General Chalmers, who, in order to support Ruggles' movement, was advancing directly upon Memphis: Henry was to avenge this disaster, Colonel Mizner was immediately sent, with one regiment, in pursuit of Chalmers. He reached Panola, destroyed the railroad-bridges in the neighborhood of this village, and th