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command during the entire campaign, and I think that everything that could possibly have been done was executed by the command of Major-General Lee.
My thanks are due General Ferguson for his gallantry, energy and prompt compliance with all orders, while temporarily under my command.
To my brigade commanders, General Adams, General Ross and Colonel Starke my thanks are especially due for efficiency and zealous discharge of every duty and their noble bearing on the field.
Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon the heroic spirits who follow them.
I respectfully refer to the detailed reports of the brigade commanders for the losses, captures, &c.
I would call the attention of the Major-General commanding especially to that portion of General Ross's report referring to the capture of Yazoo city, which I consider a perfect success.
My thanks are also due the members of my staff, Captain George Moorman, A. A. G., Captain Thomas B. Sykes, A. I. G., Major W. R. Paul, Q. M., Major A. P. Glover, C. S., Major I. F. Simmons, Paymaster, for gallantry and efficiency on the field.
My aid de camp, Lieutenant James R. Crump, was killed while gallantly leading my escort company in a successful charge against a party of marauding Yankees near Sharon, Mississippi, February 26th, 1864.
He was a brave and noble officer.
Very respectfully,
Report of General Richardson.
Headquarters West Tennessee brigade, Benton, Miss., March 7th, 1864.
Major,--On the 23rd of February, I received an order from Major-General S. D. Lee, commanding cavalry west of Alabama, to move my brigade to Grenada “for the protection of the public property at that point, and to guard against raids from Yazoo City.”
I started from Tampica on the morning of the 24th, and hearing that evening that the enemy was raiding unrestricted over the country between the Yazoo river and the M. C. R. R., from Greenwood to Lexington, I moved rapidly to surprise and chastise him. 