39 Series I Volume XXVI-II Serial 42 - Port Hudson Part II
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BENTON [CANTON?], MISS., June 8, 1863.
Lieutenant Colonel JOHN L. LOGAN,
Clinton, via Osyka:
Your dispatch of yesterday received. You must not come at once to Jackson. You are not wanted there.
On the contrary, you ought not to be driven back by 4,000 Eastern troops. When you find the enemy too strong, fall back only so far as may be necessary, hindering and retarding his advance.
J. E. JOHNSTON,
General.
Abstract from tabular statement of troops in the Department of the Gulf, Major General Dabney H. Maury, C. S. Army, commanding, June 8, 1863.
Command Effective Aggregat Aggregate Stations.
strength. e present
present and
absent
[J. E.] 1,900 2,255 2,837 Bay Shore and
Slaughters Spanish River
brigade batteries, Camp
Beulah, Choctaw
and Overn Bluffs,
Fort Appalachee,
Mobile, and Pinto
Battery
[W. L.] 1,229 1,321 1,512 Camps Powell and
Powell's Withers, Forts
brigade Ganies and Morgan
and Grant's Pass
Eastern 1,175 1,313 1,460 Camp Lomax, Fla.,
Division and Pollard, Ala.
(James
Cantey)
Post of 189 211 245 East Pascaguola,
Pascagoula and Jackson's
(J. H. Creek,. West
Marshall) Pascaguola River
Total 4,493 5,100 6,054
RECAPITULATION.
Infantry 2,908 3,373 3,929
Cavalry 720 789 925
Artillery 865 939 1,200
Total 4,493 5,100 6,054
Troops in the Department of the Gulf, June 8, 1863.
Slaughter's Bridge.
17th Alabama.
21st Alabama (First Battalion).
54th [57th] Alabama.*
Gid. Nelson (Alabama) Artillery.+
Humes' (Tennessee) battery.++
Hutchinson's (Alabama) battery.
Ward's (Alabama) battery.
Post of Pascaguola.
Dorrance Rangers.
Mobile Dragoons.
Eastern Division.
29th Alabama.
Florida Cavalry Battalion (three companies).
Amos's Partisona Rangers.
England's section of artillery.
Powell's Brigade.
1st Alabama Artillery Battalion.
21st Alabama (Second Battalion).
1st Confederate.
Baldwin Rangers.
City Troop.
Partisan Rangers (detachment).
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*Temporarily attached (a new regiment) from Clanton's brigade.
+One section at Pascaguola.
++One section in Powell's brigade.
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