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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)
t he reached Okolona Station on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. He had encountered, it is true, a band of militia of about six hundred men under the command of General Gholson, who had endeavored to keep him back, but after having easily repulsed it he had left the Houston road to proceed eastward to Okolona, and, avoiding a swamp of which Gholson wished to dispute the passage, had promptly passed him by. Smith, then, had arrived in the fertile region of which we have spoken; he had reached the railroad which he intended to destroy, but he had allowed Forrest to outstrip him and to place himself between him and Meridian with all his forces, for on that sam and a daring adversary might have made him pay dear for his boldness. He contented himself with forwarding on the tracks of the enemy the seven hundred men whom Gholson brought quite opportunely at this time, and who picked up a goodly number of stragglers. During this time he retraced his steps, with the remainder of his troops