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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Commissioned Brigadier--General--command at Ironton, Mo.-Jefferson City-Cape Girardeau- General Prentiss-Seizure of Paducah-headquarters at Cairo (search)
General--command at Ironton, Mo.-Jefferson City-Cape Girardeau- General Prentiss-Seizure of Paducah-headquarteTroops had been ordered to move from Ironton to Cape Girardeau, sixty or seventy miles to the south-east, on the Mississippi River; while the forces at Cape Girardeau had been ordered to move to Jacksonville, ten miles oders I established my temporary headquarters at Cape Girardeau [August 30] and sent instructions to the commankson. Two or three days after my arrival at Cape Girardeau, word came that General Prentiss was approachinckson for the night, and had come on himself to Cape Girardeau, leaving orders for his command to follow him imorning early they were reported as approaching Cape Girardeau. I then ordered the General very peremptorily I reinforced Paducah rapidly from the troops at Cape Girardeau; and a day or two later General C. F. Smith, a were present in my office my intention to visit Cape Girardeau the next day, to inspect the troops at that poi