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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 8 (search)
hay, and had several skirmishes with it, while Lomax also moved forward on the Valley Pike and the ith the infantry at New Market, but Rosser and Lomax moved down the Valley in pursuit, and skirmish Columbia Furnace to Edinburg, and on the 11th Lomax was sent to the Luray Valley and took positionr left and rear, and on my right we could hear Lomax's guns receding. I saw we had no possible cha, about twenty seven miles from Woodstock, and Lomax moved down the Valley against Merrit. This ofd fight of two hours ended in the rout of both Lomax and Rosser, Merrit chasing the former for twenery forge, the headquarters' wagons of Rosser, Lomax, Wickham, and Payne, and other wagons, forty-ssions had now routed the combined divisions of Lomax and Rosser, inflicting a loss of four hundred their splendid efforts. But I will say that Lomax's division had never been used much as cavalryade. Arriving near that place we learned that Lomax had repulsed the raiding party, and we returne
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Recollections of campaign against Grant in North Mississippi in 1862-63. (search)
, Bolivar, and other points in West Tennessee, North Mississippi, and Alabama. Van Dorn having superior rank, but not having command over Price, sent Colonel Lindsey Lunsford Lomax early in September to urge upon Price that they should combine their forces and drive the Federals out of Mississippi and West Tennessee. At the timenth. This attack had for some time occupied Van Dorn's mind. Several weeks before General Price moved upon Iuka, General Van Dorn had sent a staff-officer, Colonel Lomax of Virginia (since Major-General Lomax), to invite and urge General Price that they should combine their forces in an attack upon Corinth. The plan was wise wMajor-General Lomax), to invite and urge General Price that they should combine their forces in an attack upon Corinth. The plan was wise while it was bold, and characteristic of Van Dorn's aggressive temper. The enemy occupied West Tennessee and the Memphis and Charleston railroad at Memphis, Bolivar, Jackson, Corinth, Rienzi, Jacinto, Iuka and Bethel with garrisons aggregating 42,000 men, and was preparing with extraordinary energy to reduce Vicksburg by a combined