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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
General D. Stuart the second; this latter division had been reenforced by General Hugh Ewing's brigade, which had arrived from West Virginia. At the time of its date I received the following note from General Grant: Milliken's Bend, March 16, 1863 General Sherman. dear sir: I have just returned from a reconnoissance up Steele's Bayou, with the admiral (Porter), and five of his gunboats. With some labor in cutting tree-tops out of the way, it will be navigable for any class of steamreturned it at 9.15, with an answer that the regiment was all ready. I went up to Milliken's Bend in the tug, and had a conference with the general, resulting in these orders: headquarters Department of the Tennessee, before Vicksburg, March 16, 1863. Major-General W. T. Sherman, commanding Fifteenth Army Corps. General: You will proceed as early as practicable up Steele's Bayou, and through Black Bayou to Deer Creek, and thence with the gunboats now there by any route they may take to