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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
at the eastern extremity of the line which separated the belligerents, Streight was to pierce this line toward its centre, and Grierson at the west near the Mississippi. Since the commencement of the year the latter had had nothing to do but guard the neighborhood of Memphis and the Corinth railway. He had only met the enemy on one occasion, at Covington on the 10th of March, when he had dispersed a band of Confederates four hundred strong. On the 17th of April he left La Grange, near Grand Junction, and took the field with his own regiment, the Sixth Illinois, together with the Seventh of the same State and the Second Iowa—seventeen hundred horses in all—accompanied by a battery of artillery. Grant, wishing to leave him perfect freedom of action, had given him no positive instructions, simply directing him to cut up the railroads and destroy the depots in the rear of Pemberton. On the 18th, crossing the Tallahatchie above New Albany, Grierson entered the open country of the ene