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: 656
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MISSISSIPPI, WEST TENNESSEE, ETC.
CHATTANOOGA, March 7, 1863.
Lieuten mt General PEMBERTON :
Can Colonel .R. F.] Looney raise force enough to control Richardson ?
If so, he had better do it, and arrest Richardson. Are there State
troops that might help him
J. E. JOHNSTON.
JACKSON, March 7, 1863.
General S. COOPER, Richmond :
General Stevenson, commanding Vicksburg, telegraphs, March 4-
The Indianola is not destroyed. We are at work to raise her. One 11-inch gun
was bursted; the others are not injured. Further by mail.
J. C. PEMBERTON.
GRENADA, MISS., March 8, 1863-9.50 a. m.
Colonel WADDY:
I have this moment received the inclosed from Mitchell's Cross-Roads,
dated 7th, a. m.:
Scouts report about thirty transports passing mouth of Coldwater this morning.
Scout, still there, will report number definitely to-morrow.
McCULLOCH,
Colonel, Commanding.
I have sent a courier to General Loring.
LLOYD TILGHMAN.
HEADQUARTERS C. S. FORCES,
Washington County, Mississippi, March 8, 1863.
To th'e Oficer in Command of U. S. Forces near Greenville :
SIR: I have been informed that two men of my command, left by my
order at Greenville, Miss., with flag of truce, for the purpose of delivering
a letter addressed to Captain Sutherland, U. S. Navy, on official busi-
ness, were taken off from that point on the 6th instant by the forces of
the United States. In consequence of this, I send an officer, under flag
of truce, to Greenville, to deliver this letter. If my information proves
correct, I would request to be informed on what grounds, and by whose
authority, this violation, as I must consider it, of the rights and usages
of war has been committed. I am the more urged to make this request,
as the same men were a day or two before taken, disarmed, and carried
on board the United States vessel Curlew, where their dispatch was
opened and read. With the hope that this matter may at once receive
the attention of the United States authority,
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. W. FERGUSON,
Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Pemberton, March 8, 1863.
Lieut. Gen. J. C. PEMBERTON, Commanding Department:
The following just received:
I have inclosed you this morning information of the advance of the enemy down
the Tallahatchee River. It may be but their advance party to guard against acci-
dent. I would advise sending at once to Yazoo City some heavy guns, and a force to656
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