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on to him, especially when we were positively informed by men like Buckland, Kilby Smith, and Major Ricker, who went to the front to look for enemies, instead of going to the landing; and here I will ich had hovered around for some days, and which I had failed to bag. I immediately dispatched Major Ricker with all my cavalry in a tremendous rain to the front. Soon after I heard distant musketry, I awaited the return of my cavalry and infantry, still to our front. Colonel Buckland and Major Ricker soon returned and reported encountering infantry, artillery, and cavalry near the fallen timbith heavy loss. No details given. H. W. Halleck, Major-General. General Buckland and Major Ricker have both written an account of the reconnoissance on the 4th. Starting at 2 P. M., General ons were taken that a surprise was impossible. * * * Concerning the same reconnoissance, Major Ricker wrote as follows: * * * When we got back to the picket lines we found General Sherman the