The life and campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from his boyhood to the surrender of Lee (1866) (14768494101)

Major General James B. McPherson
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Title: The life and campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from his boyhood to the surrender of Lee
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Headley, P. C. (Phineas Camp), 1819-1903
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Publisher: New York, The Derby and Miller publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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, Brigadier-General John A. Logan commanding; theFourth Division, Brigadier-General J. G. Lauman commanding; the FirstBrigade of Cavalry, Colonel B. H. Grierson commanding; and the forcesin the District of Corinth, commanded by Brigadier-General G. M. Dodge,will constitute the Seventeenth Army Corps, and be commanded by Major-General J. B. McPherson. District commanders will send consolidated returns of their forces tothese head-quarters as well as to army corps head-quarters, and will, forthe present, receive orders from department head-quarters. By order of Major-General U. S. Geaxt. The divisions of Generals McArthur and Quinby, ofthe Sixteenth Army Corps, were transposed, with thoseof Generals Lauman and Denver, of the Seventeenth. General Sherman, when he left Memphis, with hisstaff, had his head-quarters on board the Forest Queen,which arrived at Friars Point on December 21st. Hewas, therefore, entirely unaware of the backward stepsof General Grant, from Oxford to Holly Springs.
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