Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., March 9-14, 1862.-expedition toward <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=pardy&n=1&type=person">Pardy</a> and operations about Crump's Landing, Tenn., No. 7.-report of <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=mouton,alfred&n=1&type=person">Col. Alfred Mouton</a>, Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry.

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No. 7.-report of Col. Alfred Mouton, Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry.

Hdqrs. 4TH Brigade, 1ST Corps, 2D Grand Div., Army of Mississippi Valley, Near Corinth nine miles towards Pittsburg, March 12, 1862.

Sir: A mounted courier has just reached me with a verbal message from Major Baskerville, stating that the enemy had landed a force at Crump's Landing 18,000 strong, firing upon the cavalry pickets driving them in. The same courier informs me that a regiment of infantry, a company of our artillery, and all the cavalry are retreating on Purdy.

Yours, respectfully,

Alfr. Mouton Colonel Eighteenth Regiment Louisiana vols., (Comdg. Fourth Brig., C. S. Forces, Mississippi Valley. Capt. Roy Mason Hooe, A. A. A. G., Corinth, Miss.

Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office. 1884.

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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862.
Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott, Ed.

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No. 7.-report of Col. Alfred Mouton, Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry.

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott, Ed.

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No. 7.-report of Col. Alfred Mouton, Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry.

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862.
Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott, Ed.