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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
ght horses. Sooy Smith received orders to draw from these elements a column of seven thousand cavalry, at the head of which he was to leave Memphis about the 1st of February, taking with him a few batteries of artillery, but as few wagons as possible. The route marked out by Sherman took him, via Pontotoc, to Okolona on the Mobilvalry in the campaign which it has so uselessly undertaken to rejoin Sherman at Meridian. The latter expected that his lieutenant should leave Memphis on the 1st of February. He has asserted that he gave him the formal order to do so. He had, as we have said, directed the latter to form a corps of seven thousand well-equipped cavundred men which Waring was bringing from Union City. He does not appear to have doubted that this brigade would arrive in the vicinity of Memphis before the 1st of February, and had not foreseen that it might be delayed. But whether the length of the march was erroneously calculated or the order for departure had not been duly s