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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
o days rest to Waring. The latter proceeded by a direct road from Collierville to New Albany, where he was to meet Grierson, who with his two brigades had left Germantown, near Memphis, accompanied by Sooy Smith. In spite of this lamentable delay, the Union cavalry might yet have rejoined Sherman at Meridian if it had accelerateosed to defend between Panola and Abbeville. It was when in this position that he received the news of the departure of the two columns of hostile cavalry from Germantown and Collierville. He surmised at once that their objective point was the town of Meridian, in the direction of which he knew that Sherman was already marching,ld be safe only in their old encampments, they did not slacken their pace before having crossed, on the 24th, the Tippah River. Grierson's division returned to Germantown on the 25th; Waring's brigade, passing through Collierville, reached Memphis on the 27th. The losses in men were not great. They amounted to four or five hund