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: 658
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MISSISSIPPI, WEST TENNESSEE, ETC.
The ammunition has again been ordered to be furnished at once. I
have no more heavy guns to send. Any troops you need must come
from General Tilghman, from the cavalry.
J. C. PEMBERTON.
JACKSON, March 9, 1863.
Major-General STEVENSON, Vicksburg :
General Bowen will take his brigade-over 2,500 men.
J. C. PEMBERTON.
JACKSON, March 9, 1863.
Captain [SAM.] HENDERSON, Grenada, Miss.:
Send the following by courier to Southwestern Tennessee, to Colonel
Looney :
Colonel [R. F.] LooNEY:
Control [R. V.] Richardson with any means in your power. Arrest him, and send
him to this place.
J. C. PEMBERTON.
JACKSON, March 9, 1863.
Captain [SAM.] HENDERSON, Grenada:
In your dispatch of 7th instant, you say that Hendricks is just in and
reports enemy has gone down Pass again. Do you mean in direction
of Moon Lake, or from Moon Lake toward Tallahatchee ?
J. C. PEMBERTON.
GRENADA, March 9, 1863.
General J. C. PEMBERTON:
Scout Eastham left Florence Thursday morning. All the gunboats
and transports with troops have returned down river, and stopped op-
posite Hamburg. Heard heavy cannonading Thursday evening at or
near there. Land forces also returned to Corinth Thursday night.
Makes force now there about 10,000. Some transports gone down river;
remainder at Hamburg.
SAM. HENDERSON,
Commanding Scouts.
[Indorsement.]
This movement, I think, evidently means a move to the rear of Co-
lumbia, Tenn. There is a stone pike nearly all the way from Tennessee
River.
LLOYD TILGHMAN.
JACKSON, March 9, 1863.
General JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, Chattanooga, Tenn.:
I learn from Florence, 6th instant, that all the gunboats and trans-
ports with troops have returned down the river, and stopped opposite
Hamburg. Land forces .also returned to Corinth, making force there
about 10,000.
J. C. PEMBERTON.658
[CHAP. XXXVI.
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