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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 57 57 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 27 3 Browse Search
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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 10 2 Browse Search
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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 7 1 Browse Search
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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
le command was at College Hill, ten miles from Oxford, whence I reported to General Grant in Oxford.Oxford. On the 8th I received the following letter: Oxford, Mississippi, December 8, 1862.--MorninOxford, Mississippi, December 8, 1862.--Morning. General Sherman, College Hill. dear General: The following is a copy of dispatch just receiverant, Major-General. I repaired at once to Oxford, and found General Grant in a large house with rear; that its garrison was small, and he, at Oxford, would so handle his troops as to hold Pemberteral Halleck, in Washington, as follows: Oxford, December 8, 1862. Major-General H. W. Halleckrmy Corps, Department of the Tennessee, Oxford, Mississippi, December 8, 1862. Major-General W. T. adquarters Department of the Tennessee, Oxford, Mississippi, December 14, 1862. Major-General Sherm be passed out. As we rode that morning toward Oxford, I observed in a farmer's barn-yard a wagon thnd that he had drawn back from Coffeeville and Oxford to Holly Springs and Lagrange; and, further, t[1 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
en subject to General Grant's orders — viz., four army corps--he could easily resume the movement from Memphis, by way of Oxford and Grenada, to Jackson, Mississippi, or down the ridge between the Yazoo and Big Black; but General Grant would not, forrience of marching and maintaining armies without a regular base, which we afterward acquired, he would have gone on from Oxford as first contemplated, and would not have turned back because of the destruction of his depot at Holly Springs by Van Dorn. The distance from Oxford to the rear of Vicksburg is little greater than by the circuitous route we afterward followed, from Bruinsburg to Jackson and Vicksburg, during which we had neither depot nor train of supplies. I have never criticised Geopportunity, which cost him and us six months extra-hard work, for we might have captured Vicksburg from the direction of Oxford in January, quite as easily as was afterward done in July, 1863. General Grant's orders for the general movement past