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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.
operated during all these terrible storms, and are now following the
enemy into the mountains.
Officers and men behaved splendidly, and all are entitled to the
warmest praise for perseverance and daring gallantry.
Scouts have arrived from the interior of Mississippi during the last
twenty-four hours, and all report the enemy rapidly evacuating Vicks-
burg. He is moving everything to the eastward, and the talk is that
all are going to re-enforce the army opposed to Rosecrans, now com-
manded by Joe Johnston, Bragg having been removed.
Price's forces are on the east side of Black River.
This news from Vicksburg is of such importance that I take the lib
erty of suggesting it be sent to General Grant at once.
I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
C. S. HAMILTON.
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
No. 28. Lake Providence, La., February 26, 1863.
Trade not having been opened below Helena, Ark., by the Secretary
of the Treasury, it is therefore ordered:
I. That all cotton in this vicinity be seized for the benefit of the Gov-
ernment, or whomsoever it may concern, under the immediate direction
and supervision of Capt. John G. Klinck, chief quartermaster of the
Seventeenth Army Corps, who will forward the same as fast as practi-
cable to Captain Eddy, assistant quartermaster U. S. Army, Memphis,
Tenn., and will keep a strict account of all seizures made by virtue of
this order, promptly sending a duplicate report to Lieutenant-Colonel
[Charles A.] Reynolds, chief quartermaster Department of the Tennes-
see. Requisitions for details to carry out this order will be made by
the quartermaster upon these headquarters.
II. All cotton heretofore seized, now at this point, will be immediately
turned over to Captain Klinck, on proper receipts being given.
III. All orders from subordinate commanders in contravention hereof
are hereby revoked.
By order of Major-General McPherson :
WM. T. CLARK,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Camp, February 26, 1863.
General FRED. STEELE, Commanding First Division:
SIR: The ram Queen of the West having disappeared down the river,
may be construed as timidity on the one hand, or as evidence of having
the river below free and unobstructed to the enemy. It looks to me
ominous of the fate of the Indianola, and if she be destroyed or cap-
tured, we must expect, of course, the enemy at any time making his ap-
pearance in boats from that direction. I will leave the four 20-pounder
guns there; one to cover the steamboat New Era; two to offer some
obstacle to the passage of boats above Warrenton. But infantry is of
no use there, except to protect and cover those guns and assist in pro-
tecting the boat. There being no protection against this foul weather,
and it being impossible to haul rations and forage over to the troops
there, I deem one good regiment sufficient for protecting those guns and
holding that point of our line. You may, therefore, withdraw, say,6;9
CHAP. XXXVI.]
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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 24, In Three Parts. Part 3, Correspondence, etc., book, 1889; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth154593/m1/69/?q=McNally: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.