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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)
tisans, was destroyed; General Dodge, with a division of infantry and the cavalry brigade of Colonel Cornyn, stationed himself at Corinth; Colonel Grierson and his mounted men had charge of guarding n vain to find one of the enemy's vessels which has eluded them. A brigade of cavalry under Colonel Cornyn, detached by General Blair, who is in command at Memphis, has combined its movements with thty and destroying everything that he could not carry away. In order to cover this movement, Colonel Cornyn, who accompanied him with his cavalry, extended his lines still farther on his left, pillagiods, while Stanley returns to Murfreesborough with seventy-three prisoners. A few days later Colonel Cornyn, who had already pillaged Tuscumbia on two occasions, left Corinth with the Tenth Missouri cavalry, Cornyn's command was composed of the Tenth Missouri, Seventh Kansas, Fifteenth Illinois cavalry, and Ninth Illinois (mounted) infantry.—Ed. and, moving once more toward that city, on the 27