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inth found itself much weakened. Reinforcements, however, soon arrived, which enabled it to take the field once more. On the 25th of May this body of cavalry resumed the offensive, and, pushing forward as far as Senatobia, after a brief engagement drove the Confederates beyond the Tallahatchie. During the month of June the latter, anxious to conceal their real weakness, showed themselves very active. On the 4th, Wirt Adams' troopers, who covered Johnston's small army, advanced as far as Satartia on the Yazoo River, and did not retire until after meeting the superior forces of Colonel Kimball. A fortnight later the Confederate Ruggles undertook to cut the railroad from Memphis to Corinth at Pocahontas, but the Federals having been warned of his movements, Colonel Phillips proceeded as far as Ripley to meet him, and repulsed him on the 16th of June at Rocky Crossing on the Tallahatchie, taking about thirty prisoners. Another Federal detachment, under Major Henry, was less fortunate