The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 24, In Three Parts. Part 3, Correspondence, etc. Page: 18
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18 MISSISSIPPI, WEST TENNESSEE, ETC. [HAr. XXXVL
through Tensas Bayou, Washita and Black Rivers, is a wide and navi-
gable way; the distance to be cut to enter it from the Mississippi not
great. With this open, a vast foraging district would be opened, and
our gunboats of light draught would be enabled to cut off the enemy's
commerce with the west bank of the river.
I have determined to make the experiment, at all events, and for this
purpose will want a brigade detailed and embarked as soon as possible.
They will be accompanied by one of the gunboats. All the tools re-
quired can be gotten by calling on Captain [Benjamin F.] Reno, assist-
ant quartermaster, on the steamer Adelia.
U. S. GRANT.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Before Vicksburg, January 30, 1863.
Maj. Gen. U. S. GRANT,
Commanding Department of the Tennessee :
GENERAL: Your dispatch of this date is received. I have accord-
ingly ordered a brigade to be detailed to cut the proposed canal between
Lake Providence and Bayou Tensas. If this project should fail of suc-
cess, it might be well to inquire into the practicability of connecting
the Mississippi River at Lake Village (nearly opposite Greenville) with
the Washita and Red Rivers.
Your obedient servant,
JOHN A. McCLERNAND.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Before Vicksburg, Miss., January 30, 1863.
Maj. Gen. U. S. GRANT,
Commanding Department of the Tennessee :
Your order directing me to move the camp of the Fifty-fourth In-
diana Volunteers outside the limits of the camp hospital, and to furnish
guards for such hospital, is received.
The officer who brought you a complaint upon this subject should
not have troubled you, but should have come to me, or, having come to
you, I think ought regularly to have been referred to me. I denounce
his complaint as an act of insubordination. Please advise me who
made the complaint. If I am to be held responsible for the safety of
this camp, I must be permitted to dispose of the forces within it as I
may think proper. The internal organization of the camp and the dis-
position of its forces are matters that properly belong to me, as their
immediate commander.
The Fifty-fourth Indiana was assigned to the position coveted by the
medical director or the hospital surgeon, for strategic reasons, before the
camp hospital was located. Those reasons are in part explained by the
correspondence, a copy of which is herewith inclosed.* Nevertheless,
upon the application of the medical director, or, rather, upon my own
suggestion, the huts occupied by the Fifty-fourth were vacated by them
and assigned for hospital uses, and the regiment ordered to encamp as
far away as was consistent with strategic considerations. This they
did. Still, complaint came. The surgeon objected to the neighborship
of the regiment, the colonel complained of the insolence of the surgeon,
* Not found.
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