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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 7 (search)
after burning the village. The Confederate baggage and the captured property were preserved. On the 15th, being still at Oxford, he sent me intelligence (on the authority of his scouts) that some four thousand United States troops, with a hundred wagons, had passed through Holly Springs the day before, going southward. To meet this incursion, Major-General Loring was ordered to hasten to Grenada with his division. Next day, however, another dispatch from General Chalmers, sent from Water Valley, informed me that the Federal party had turned back--burning in every direction, including the village of Chulahoma In the mean time intelligence was received from Canton that two divisions of Federal infantry, a brigade of cavalry, and some artillery, had crossed the Big Black at Messenger's Ferry, and were marching toward Brownsville — very slowly, however, for General Jackson, with a part of his division, was opposing every step of their progress with characteristic resolution; and wi