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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 46 (search)
o General Loring, then on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, to mount what force he could on that line. In the impressment of horses and their necessary equipments, Major L. Mims, Chief Quartermaster, was materially aided by his Excellency the Governor of Mississippi, who was also earnestly advised to mount, by the same process, a portion of the the State troops in Northern Mississippi. All the cavalry I could thus collect south of the Southern Railroad was placed under the orders of Colonel R. V. Richardson, until he should fall in with Colonel Wirt Adams, who was then directed to assume command and direct the movements of the whole. On the twenty-eighth, it was ascertained that Grierson was continuing his movement south of Hazle-hurst, and not towards Grand Gulf, or the Big Black Bridge. Colonel Adams was directed to follow him up and ambuscade him if posssible. These instructions were carried out as far as practicable, and resulted in a smart skirmish near Union Church ; Colonel Ad