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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 12 (search)
d been assembled in the West. During the latter part of June and first half of July, I had my own and Hurlbut's divisions about Grand Junction, Lagrange, Moscow, and Lafayette, building railroad-trestles and bridges, fighting off cavalry detachments coming from the south, and waging an everlasting quarrel with planters about their negroes and fences — they trying, in the midst of moving armies, to raise a crop of corn. On the 17th of June I sent a detachment of two brigades, under General M. L. Smith, to Holly Springs, in the belief that I could better protect the railroad from some point in front than by scattering our men along it; and, on the 23d, I was at Lafayette Station, when General Grant, with his staff and a very insignificant escort, arrived from Corinth en route for Memphis, to take command of that place and of the District of West Tennessee. He came very near falling into the hands of the enemy, who infested the whole country with small but bold detachments of cavalr
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
it was composed as follows: First Brigade, Brigadier-General M. L. Smith.--Eighth Missouri, Colonel G. A. Smith; Sixth Mthese six brigades into three divisions, under Brigadier-Generals M. L. Smith, J. W. Denver, and J. G. Lauman. About the General Anderson, Ordnance. Second Division, Brigadier-General M. L. Smith.--Steamers Chancellor, headquarters, and Thielm, Generals F. Steele, George W. Morgan, A. J. Smith, and M. L. Smith: With this I hand to each of you a copy of a map, comd been burned by the gunboats on a former occasion), and M. L. Smith's just below. A. J. Smith's division arrived the next night, and disembarked below that of M. L. Smith. The place of our disembarkation was in fact an island, separated from the hSteele was on Morgan's left, across Chickasaw Bayou, and M. L. Smith on Morgan's right. We met light resistance at all pointrgan, and the other about a mile lower down, in front of M. L. Smith's division. During the general reconnoissance of the