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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 12.46 (search)
a few men were killed, wounded, and captured on both sides, had aroused the vigilance of the Northern commanders to some extent. Sherman reported on the 5th to Grant that two regiments of infantry and one of cavalry were in his front, and added: I have no doubt that nothing will occur to-day more than some picket-firing ... I do not apprehend anything like an attack on our position. in his Memoirs he says: I did not believe they designed anything but a strong demonstration. he said to Major Ricker that an advance of Beauregard's army could not be possible. Beauregard was not such a fool as to leave his base of operations and attack us in ours,--mere reconnaissance in force. this shows a curious coincidence with the actual state of General Beauregard's mind on that day. And Grant telegraphed Halleck on Saturday night: the main force of the enemy is at Corinth. one division of Buell's column arrived yesterday. . . . I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (General one) bei