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- GLC#
- GLC03512
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 25 May 1863
- Author/Creator
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
- Title
- to William T. Sherman
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.9 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Written at Headquarters of the Department of the Tennessee near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Grant writes to Sherman in the early days of the siege of Vicksburg. Relates he ordered Colonel Johnson to ascertain the number of Confederate troops north of the Black River, and to burn a bridge over the river, leaving Haynes' Bluff without a garrison. Writes "I deem that point of so much importance that I am willing to weaken our force here rather that to leave it unoccupied." Orders Sherman to send a brigade to assist in fortifying the bluff. Endorsed by Sherman, who orders Tuttle (possibly General James Madison Tuttle) to send a brigade to Haynes' Bluff.
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