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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9 : (search)
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11 : (search)
Chapter 11:
South Carolina troops in Mississippi
engagement near Jackson
the Vicksburg campaign
siege of Jackson.
On May 2d the secretary of war telegraphed General Beauregard as follows: Advices show the enemy abandoning their attack on the eastern coasts and concentrating great forces on the Mississippi.
Send with utmost dispatch 8,000 or 10,000 men to General Pemberton's relief.
General Beauregard replied that he had returned to North Carolina Cooke's and Clingman's brigades, but would send at once 5,000 men and two light batteries to General Pemberton's relief.
He added that he would then have left only 10,000 infantry available for the defense of South Carolina and Georgia, and if he sent more troops to Pemberton, he would lose command of the Savannah railroad.
This satisfied the secretary, and on the 4th he telegraphed General Beauregard to hurry the 5,000 troops on as soon as possible.
Accordingly, orders were issued, assigning Brig.-Gens. S. R. Gist a