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958 Series I Volume XXIV-III Serial 38 - Vicksburg Part III

Page 958 Mississippi, WEST TENNESSEE, ETC. Chapter XXXVI.

Abstract from morning report of Walker's DIVISION, Major General W. H. T. Walker, C. S. Army, commanding, for June 10, 1863; headquarters, Yazoo City.

Present for duty

Command. Office Men. Aggrega Aggrega Aggreg

rs. te te ate

present present yester

. and day.

absent.

DIVISION staff 10 -- 10 10 10

Gist's brigade 131 2,325 2,878 3,511 3,591

Ector's brigade 115 1,070 1,364 2,168 2,173

Gregg's brigade 196 1,868 2,283 3,872 3,799

McNair's brigade 114 1,134 1,517 2,394 2,434

Wilson's brigade 147 2,232 2,802 4,093 4,107

John Adams' brigade -- -- -- -- 1,678

Ferguson's command 23 415 491 715 609

Artillery 22 410 515 660 653

Cavalry battalion 9 241 298 441 441

Total 767 9,695 12,158 17,864 19,495

GENERAL JOSEPH E. Johnston:

The enemy bombards the city day and night from seven mortars on opposite side of peninsula. He also keep up constant fire on our lines with artillery and sharpshooters. We are losing many officers and men. I am waiting most anxiously to know your intentions; have heard nothing of you or from you since 25th May. I shall endeavor to hold out as long as we have anything to eat. Can you not send me a verbal message by a courier, crossing the river above or below, and swimming across again opposite Vicksburg?

J. C. PEMBERTON.

(Repeated June 12.)

[June 10, 1863. -For E. K. Smith to J. E. Johnston, see Series I, VOL. XXVI, Part II, p. 43.]

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, Richmond, Va June 10, 1863.

General G. T. BEAUREGARD,

Comdg., &c., Charleston, S. C.:

GENERAL: Northern papers report the reduction of Hunter's forces by sending troops to the Gulf. If this be true, you will, such force as you can properly withdraw from your defensive line, proceed to Mobile, to resist an attack, if one should be designed at that place, but if the purpose of the enemy, be to send his re-enforcements to the Mississippi, you will go on and co-operate with General Johnston in that quarter.

By direction of the President:

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. COOPER.

(Copy for the information of General J. E. Johnston.)


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