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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Meeting at the White Sulphur Springs. (search)
hese words: General, I charge you with the defence of North Mississippi. In doing this I wish you to feel untrammeled in yought! Organizes a new command in West Tennessee and North Mississippi. Mr. Davis refused to accept his resignation, but of Major-General, and assigned him to the command of North Mississippi and West Tennessee, and gave him permission to take w would strike for Columbus and the prairie country of east Mississippi, where we had government works and a large quantity oa considerable force of infantry and cavalry in the State of Mississippi, threatening the river, whose navigation had becomethe combined cavalry which the enemy has in all the State of Mississippi. I will, in person, start for Vicksburg to-day, not expected there? Why order Smith to move through East Mississippi when Forrest was in West Mississippi? Why send infanWest Mississippi? Why send infantry to make a feint on Panola and Wyatt, when Smith was moving for Pontotoc one hundred miles east of Panola? And lastly,