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You are familiar with the ground, the coincident history, and most, if not all, the parties. I propose to supply you with My letter of instructions to him of January 27th. My official report of the campaign, dated Vicksburg, March 7, 1864. General W. Sooy Smith's report of his operations, dated Nashville, Tennessee, March 4, 1864.
He spent several days in Meridian in thoroughly destroying the railroad to the north and south, and also for the purpose of hearing from Sooy Smith, who he supposed had met Forrest before this time and he hoped had gained a decisive victory because of a superiority of numbers. Hearing nothing of him, however, he started on his return trip to Vicksburg.
We at once set to work to destroy an arsenal, immense storehouses, and the railroad in every direction. We staid in Meridian five days, expecting every hour to hear of General Sooy Smith, but could get no tidings of him whatever. A large force of infantry was kept at work all the time in breaking up the Mobile & Ohio Railroad south and north; also the Jackson & Selma Railroad, east and west.
I will as far as possible procure horses from the regions of country traversed by our cavalry. Yours truly, W. SOOY SMITH, Brigadier-General, Chief of Cavalry, Military Division of the Mississippi. MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, January 28, 1864 Brigadier-General GEORGE CROOK, commanding Second Cavalry Division, Huntsville, Alabama.
I will as far as possible procure horses from the regions of country traversed by our cavalry. Yours truly, W. SOOY SMITH, Brigadier-General, Chief of Cavalry, Military Division of the Mississippi. MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, January 28, 1864 Brigadier-General GEORGE CROOK, commanding Second Cavalry Division, Huntsville, Alabama.
I will as far as possible procure horses from the regions of country traversed by our cavalry. Yours truly, W. SOOY SMITH, Brigadier-General, Chief of Cavalry, Military Division of the Mississippi. MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, January 28, 1864 Brigadier-General GEORGE CROOK, commanding Second Cavalry Division, Huntsville, Alabama.
On the 8th of June a full division arrived from Hurlbut's command, under General Sooy Smith. It was sent immediately to Haines' Bluff, and General C. C. Washburn was assigned to the general command at that point. On the 11th a strong division arrived from the Department of the Missouri under General Herron, which was placed on our left.
We reached our camps on the 27th of July. Meantime, a division of troops, commanded by Brigadier-General W. Sooy Smith, had been added to my corps. General Smith applied for and received a sick-leave on the 20th of July; Brigadier-General Hugh Ewing was assigned to its command; and from that time it constituted the Fourth Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps.
I will as far as possible procure horses from the regions of country traversed by our cavalry. Yours truly, W. SOOY SMITH, Brigadier-General, Chief of Cavalry, Military Division of the Mississippi. MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, January 28, 1864 Brigadier-General GEORGE CROOK, commanding Second Cavalry Division, Huntsville, Alabama.
At Memphis I found Brigadier-General W. Sooy Smith, with a force of about twenty-five hundred cavalry, which he had by General Grant's orders brought across from Middle Tennessee, to assist in our general purpose, as well as to punish the rebel General Forrest, who had been most active in harassing our garrisons in West Tennessee and Mississippi.
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