...or of Grant, and upon a junction of their forces must have assumed command. Accordingly, in the last week in March, orders were issued for the concentration of all the forces of the expedition at Milliken 's bend; McPherson was brought from Lake Providence and the Yazoo pass, and Sherman from Steele's bayou; Hurlbut was stripped of every man that could be spared from the rear; yawls and flat-boats were...