Jno. A. Rawlins to Ulysses S. Grant, November 23, 1862
HAMILTONâS HEADQUARTERS,
November 23, 1862.
November 23, 1862. Major-General GRANT: I have intelligence from private sources that turnpike bridge, over Tallahatchie, is destroyed. The rebels use floating bridge. Price is on this side of Tallahatchie and Pemberton at Abbeville. C. 8S. HAMILTON, Brigadier- General.
Hpqrs. THIRTEENTH A. O., DEPT. OF THE TENN., La Grange, Tenn., November 23, 1862. Brig. Gen. I. F. QUINBY:
Genera] Brayman telegraphs that a man from Somerville, who knows Jackson, says that he is there with cavalry, three pieces of artillery, and several hundred infantry, waiting for re-enforcements from farther west of there and preparing to come in this direction. They probably intend to break both roads. Have you or can you obtain any information of the truth of same?
By order of Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant:
Assistant Adjutant- General.
Moscow, November 23, 1862.
Major-General GRANT:
I was informed just at dark that there was to-day a large rebel cavalry force at Hayâs Bridge, about 6 miles west of this place. These, in
connection with the report just received that Colonel Lee had already
been sent toward Somerville, led me to believe that the rebel force has
got south of the Wolf River. They could have been intercepted by