The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 30, In Four Parts. Part 1, Reports. Page: 25
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CHAP. XLII.] EXPEDITION TO HERNANDO, MISS., ETC. 25
No. 2.
Report of Lieut. Col. Hervey Craven, Eighty-ninth Indiana Infan-
try, commanding expedition.
FORT PICKERING, TENN.,
August 21, 1863.
SIR: On the morning of the 16th, in obedience to the order of
Brig. Gen. J. C. Veatch, the scouts under my command, composed
of the Eighty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry and one company
of the Sixth Illinois Cavalry, under command of Lieutenant Gui-
teau, moved for Hernando, going out on the Horn Lake road, and
were joined on the next day by another company of the Sixth Cav-
alry, under command of Captain Grimes.
The command arrived and camped on the banks of Horn Lake
Creek on the evening of the 16th, when I was informed that at the
Widow May's, about 1 mile south of the creek, there had been some
ten or a dozen of the cotton-burning guerrillas on that day, who, hav-
ing learned of the advance of our forces, fled. No pursuit was made
after them, as they had fled some hours before I received the in-
formation that they had been there. The next morning we en-
countered much difficulty in crossing the creek, as the bridge had
been burned and the channel is deep, and the banks very steep, in
consequence of which we had to unload and pack the forage across,
it being with difficulty that we crossed with empty wagons. During
the day the cavalry in advance, under command of Lieutenant
Guiteau, pursued 2 men on horseback, said to be cotton burners, one
of them a lieutenant in the rebel army; and in the afternoon, while
the command were resting during the heat of the day, 4 men on
horseback, coming along the road, discovered our pickets, when
they immediately wheeled and rode off at speed,.the pickets having
fired on them after they had refused to halt. From a negro I learned
their names to be Cyrus Smith, Henry Douglass, Robert Scales, and
Horace Polk, the latter living within 3 miles of Hernando, and the
others in the same neighborhood, but farther this way, Cyrus Smith
living some 5 or 6 miles this side of Hernando, and all between the
Horn Lake and Hernando roads. They seem to be well under-
stood in the neighborhood as active rebels, and doing considerable
in the way of cotton burning. On the next evening the command
arrived at Hernando, the advance, under command of Captain
Grimes, having found on their arrival in the place some 6 or 8 cav-
alry there, among whom was Captain Perry, a citizen of that neigh-
borhood, and now at home recruiting for the rebel army. The cap-
tain and his squad, having notice of our approach by the rising of
the dust, succeeded in making their escape, but were pursued and
fired upon, and one of the fugitives, who was riding a mule not re-
markable for its speed, was captured, he and his mule held until the
next. morning, when, from information which I deemed reliable
that he did not belong to the squad of cavalry that had fled, and
that he was a citizen of the neighborhood, and had indiscreetly fled
simply because he supposed we would take his mule from him if it
was found there, and also being informed that he was violently op-
posing the Southern conscription, I deemed it advisable to release
him and did so, handing him over his mule also. The citizens seemed
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 30, In Four Parts. Part 1, Reports., book, 1890; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152978/m1/36/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.