Unknown to Major General Wright, November 10, 1862

Washington, November 10, 1862.

Major-General WRIGHT, Cincinnati, Ohio:

All spare troops are to be sent to Memphis. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief.

LA GRANGE, TENN., November 10, 1862. Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Memphis, Tenn. :

GENERAL: Colonel Grierson and company arrived here yesterday about 4 p. m. without accident by the way. Your policies of encouraging trade with the citizens I am satisfied with so long as the Treasury Department throw no more restrictions in the way than they do at pres. ent; but I think such articles as are of prime necessity for the supply of an army there should be some restriction in. As we expect to advance southward so soon, however, I do not deem any change from your present policy either necessary or desirable.

McPherson returned last evening from a reconnaissance in force toward Holly Springs. The cavalry had some skirmishing, resulting in the capture of about 130 of the Confederates; 16 killed on their side that our troops saw, and no doubt many wounded. Our cavalry was armed with revolving rifles and dismounted, while the enemy was mostly armed with shot-guns and on horseback.

The reconnaissance was pushed to Coldwater and across it. The facts ascertained from observation, from citizens, deserters, and prisoners, are that on our arrival here Price commenced the evacuation of Holly Springs. Pemberton came yp on Wednesday evening and counter336 WEST TENN. AND NORTHERN MISS. (Cua. XXIX

manded the order. The enemy now occupy Coldwater, a line in rear, and Abbeville. The following is the organization:

Pemberton’s (four) divisions :

Price—two divisions: Maury, Bowen. Rust, commanding Lovell’s division; latter sick at Holly Springs. Tilghman’s division—released prisoners.

Rust, 6,000 men—three brigades; five batteries, four guns each.

Tilghman, 4,000 men—two brigades; two batteries, two guns each.

Price, 10,000 men—two divisions ; number of guns not known.

At Abbeville there are 12,000 militia. There are no intrenchments at Coldwater; at Holly Springs ordinary rifle-pits. They have no heavy’ guns. Villepigue has gone to Port Hudson. Directly after the Corinth fight 10,000 men went to Mobile.

General Halleck informed me that there would be a movement north from New Orleans, and that Curtis was directed to re-enforce Helena, and would be directed to move on Grenada if it was impracticable to go to Little Rock. I telegraphed yesterday before receiving your letter to be more definitely informed of their different movements, and particularly that the Helena force be required to co-operate with me. ~ J am now informed that six regiments have already left for Memphis, and that five or six more will start immediately; this is infantry alone. The Third Regular Cavalry and likely other regiments of cavalry will also join you, besides several batteries.

I think it will not be advisable for you to move until you can do it with two complete divisions of twelve infantry regiments each, with a full proportion of cavalry and artillery. My plan was for you to move on Oxford if the enemy remain where they are now, or some point south of the Tallahatchie; but on reflection I am more inclined to favor your occupying Moscow, and all start together, especially if there should be a movement from Helena as desired.

When you can leave a force of four regiments of infantry with artillery and about four companies of cavalry at Memphis I think you will be ready to move. Re-enforcements may constantly be expected at Memphis after your departure. Hence this opinion.

I will not be able to send you any general officer unless possibly one to take command of the forces that will be left at Memphis. Stuart and Buckland will both command brigades or even divisions as well as if they held the commissions which they should and I hope will hold.

We will of course supply ourselves from the country with everything it affords necessary for the army, giving receipts for the same to be settled at the close of hostilities. These receipts should set forth as far as practicable the status of the parties who are deprived of their property. I will inclose with thissome information just this moment received.

I may occupy Holly Springs for the purpose of finishing the railroad as far south as possible and getting our supplies also as far in that direction as possible. We are now getting up rations rapidly and will keep on hand 100,000 ahead. The railroad is completed to Davis’ Mill and work progressing rapidly.

There were a number of matters I intended to write you when I commenced, but being interrupted so often I have forgotten them. I will communicate with you again before the final start is made.

Yours, truly, U. 8S. GRANT, Major-General, Commanding.

LA GRANGE, November 10, 1862. General WEBSTER, Jackson, Tenn.:

Give orders to all the conductors on the road that no Jews are to be permitted to travel on the railroad southward from any point. They may go north and be encouraged in it; but they are such an intolerable nuisance that the department must be purged of them.

U. S. GRANT, Major-General.

JACKSON, November 10, 1862. Major-General GRANT:

The Eighty-first [linois, from Humboldt, is under marching orders for La Grange. General Brayman wants another regiment, and says he has to do railroad duty south. I can send him one in a day or two. The mills at Davis’ Mill and the steam mill at Grand Junction ought to be seized for use, also McCown’s Mill, near Moscow. They can be made to grind cob-corn, at least, for horses instead of long forage, which will be scarce. The country between La Grange and Somerville has plenty of forage.

S. A. HURLBUT, Major-General.

Abstract from Tri-monthly Return of the Department of the Tennessee, Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant commanding, for November 10, 1862.

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Riegat WING. Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON.

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Organization of troops in the Department of the Tennessee, Maj. Gen. U. 8. Grant, U. 8. Army, commanding, November 10, 1862.

First Brigade. Col. C. CARROLL MarsnH.

20th Illinois, Maj. Orton Frisbie.

30th Tlinois, Col. Elias 8. Dennis.

31st Illinois, Col. Lyndorf Ozburn. 45th Illinois, Col. John E. Smith.

81st Illinois, Col. James J. Dollins. 124th Illinois, Lieut. Col. John H. Howe.

Second Brigade. Col. MORTIMER D. LEGGETT.

23d Indiana, Maj. William P. Davis.

20th Ohio, Col. Manning F. Force.

68th Ohio, Maj. John §. Snook.

78th Cito, Lieut. Col. Zachariah M. Chaner.

Fourth Brigade. Col. JOHN D. STEVENSON.

8th Iinois, ARE Robert H. Sturgess.

63d Illinois, Col. Joseph B. McCown. 17th Illinois, Col. Addison S. Norton. 7th Missouri, Lieut. Col. Wm. 8. Oliver.

Artillery. Capt. Grorer C. GuMBART, Ist Illinois, Battery D, Lieut. James A. Borland. 2d Illinois, Batteries E and F, Lieut. Henry R. Henning. 8th Michigan Battery, Capt. Samuel De

Golyer. 3d Ohio Battery, Capt. Wm. 8. Williams.

” Headquarters at La Grange, Tenn.

Infantry. * 14th Illinois, Col. Cyrus Hall. 53d Illinois, Maj. Seth C. Earl. 15th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Geo. C. Rogers. 76th Illinois, Col. Alonzo W. Mack. 28th Illinois, Maj. Barclay C. Gillam. 103d Illinois, Col. Willard A. Dickerman. 32d Illinois, Lieut. Col. William Hunter. 25th Indiana, Col. William H. Morgan. 4ist Illinois, Lieut. Col. John Warner. 53d Indiana, Col. Walter Q. Gresham. 46th Illinois, Col. Benjamin Dornblaser. 3d Iowa, Capt. John B. Smith.

12th Wisconsin, Col. George E. Bryant.

2d Illinois, Battery L, Capt. William H. Bolton. 9th Indiana Battery, Lieut. George R. Brown. Ist Missouri, Battery C, Lieut. Edward Brotzmann. 7th Ohio Battery, Capt. Silas A. Burnap.

15th Ohio Battery, Capt. Edward Spear, jr.

2d Illinois, Lieut. Col. Quincy McNeil. 7th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Edward Prince. 5th Ohio (battalion), + Maj. Charles S. Hayes.

First Brigade. Second Brigade. Col. JoHN W. FULLER. Col. JonNn M. Loomis. 27th Ohio, Lieut. Col. Zeph. 8. Spaulding. 26th Illinois, Maj. Robert A. Gillmore. 39th Ohio, Col. Edward I’. Noyes. 47th Illinois, Col. George A. Williams. 43d Ohio, Col. Wager Swayne. 5th Minnesota, Col. Lucius F. Hubbard. 63d Ohio, Capt. Charles E Brown. 11th Missouri, Maj. Andrew J. Weber. 8th Wisconsin, Lieut. Col. George W.

Robbins. 2d Iowa Baty., Lieut. Daniel P. Walling.

56th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Green B. Raum. 4th Minnesota, Lieut Col. John E. Tour48th Indiana, Col. Norman Eddy. tellotte.

59th Indiana, Col. Jesse I. Alexander. 10th Missouri, Col. Samuel A. Holmes. 5th Iowa, Lieut. Col. Ezekiel S. Sampson. 24th Missouri, Company F, Lieut. W. W.

10th Iowa, Lieut. Col. William E. Small. McCammon.

17th Iowa, Col. David B. Hillis. 26th Missouri, Col. George B. Boomer,

80th Ohio, Col. Ephraim R. Eckley.

* Brigade orgauizations not indicated on original return. t But see Districts of Jackson and Corinth. t Headquarters near Grand Junction.

11th Iowa, Col. William Hall. 13th Iowa, Lieut. Col. John Shane. 15th Iowa, Maj. William T. Cunningham. 16th Iowa, Maj. William Purcell.

lst Kansas, Lieut. Col. Otto M. Tennison. 15th Mich., Lieut. Col. John McDermott.

18th Missouri, Capt. Jacob R. Ault.

14th Wisconsin, Lieut. Col. Lyman M Ward.

16th Wisconsin, Maj. Thomas Reynolds.

17th Wisconsin, Col. John L. Doran.

18th Wisconsin, Col. Gabriel Bouck.

2d Mlinois, Battery F, Lieut. Joseph W. Mitchell. 3d Michigan Battery, Capt. Alexander W. Dees. 1st Minnesota Battery, Lieut. William Z. Clayton. 1st Missouri, Battery M, Lieut. Junius W. MacMurray. 5th Ohio Battery, Lieut. Charles J. Marsh. 10th Ohio Battery, Lieut. Edward Grosskopff. 11th Ohio Battery, Capt. Frank C. Sands. 2d United States, Battery F, Capt. A. S. Molinard. 6th Wisconsin Battery, Capt. Henry Dillon. 12th Wisconsin Battery, Lieut. Lorenzo D. Immell.

Cavalry. Col. ALBERT L. LEE,

11th Dlinois, Company G, Lieut. Stephen S. Tripp. 2d Iowa, Maj. Datus E. Coon.

7th Kansas, Lieut. Col. T. P. Herrick.

3d Michigan, Maj. Gilbert Moyers.

5th Missouri, Company C, Lieut. John C. Mohrstadt.

First Brigade. Brig. Gen. MorGAN L. SMITH.

113th Illinois, Col. George B. Hoge. 120th Illinois, Col. George W. McKeaig. 6th Missouri, Col. Peter E. Bland. 8th Missouri, Col. Giles A. Smith. 54th Ohio, Col. T. cilby Smith.

Seoond Brigade. Brig. Gen. J. W. DENVER.

40th Mlinois, Lieut. Col. Jas. W. Boothe. 100th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Albert Heath. 6th Iowa, Col. John M. Corse. 46th Ohio, Col. Charles C. Walcutt. 13th United States, Ist Battalion, Maj. Daniel Chase.

Third Brigade.t 97th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Robert F. Catterson. 99th Indiana, Col. Alexander Fowler. 48th Ohio, Col. Peter J. Sullivan.

538d Ohio, Col. Wells 8. Jones. 70th Ohio, Col. Joseph R. Cockerill.

Fourth Brigade. Col. Davin Stuart.

55th Mlinois, Lieut.Col. Oscar Malmborg. 116th Dlinois, Col. Nathan W. Tupper. 127th Illinois, Col. John Van Arman. 83d Indiana, Col. Benjamin J. Spooner, 57th Ohio, Col. William Mungen.

Fifth Brigade. Col. RatpH P. BUCKLAND. 93d Illinois, Col. Holden Putnam. 114th Ilinois, Col. James W. Judy. 93d Indiana, Col. De Witt C. Thomas.

72d Ohio, Maj. Charles G. Eaton. 32d Wisconsin, Col. James H. Howe.

Reserve Brigade.t 117th Illinois, Col. Risdon M. Moore.

130th Illinois, Col. Nathaniel Niles. 33d Wisconsin, Col. Jonathan B. Moore.

* Brigade organizations not indicated on original return. t Assignments to divisions not indicated on original returns.

t Commander not indicated.

CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.—UNION.

Ist Illinois, Battery A, Capt. Peter P. Wood.

1st Illinois, Battery B, Capt. Samuel E. Barrett. Ist Dlinois, Battery E, Capt. Allen C. Waterhouse Ist Illinois, Battery F, Capt. John T. Cheney.

ist [linois, Battery H, Capt. Axel Silfversparre. Ist [linois, Battery I, Capt. Edward Bouton. Cogswell’s Tiinois Battery, Capt. William ence

Mercantile Illinois Battery, Capt. Charles G.

6th Indiana Battery, Capt. Michael Mueller. 8th Ohio Battery, Capt. Charles H. Schmidt.

6th Illinois, Col. Benjamin H. Gnerson. Thielemann’s Battalion, Maj. Christian Thielemann.

7th Illinois, Col. Andrew J. Babcock. 9th Illinois, Col. August Mersy. 12th Dlinois, Col. Augustus L. Chetlain. 50th Dlinois, Col. Moses M. Bane. 52d L1linois, Col. Thomas W. Sweeny. 57th Illinois, Col. Silas D. Baldwin. 2d Iowa, Col. James B. Weaver. 7th Iowa, Col. Elliott W. Rice.

5th Ohio, 3d Battalion. Stewart’s Illinois Battalion.

14th Missouri, t Col. Patrick E. Burke. 22d Ohio, Col. Oliver Wood. 81st Ohio, Col. Thomas Morton.

* 1st United States, Capt. E. D. Phillips.

Union Brigade. Yates Sharpshooters, Lieut. Col. John Morrill.

Artillery and Engineers.

1st Missouri Artillery,(4 batteries), Maj. George H. Stone.

Sappers and Miners, Lieut. Christian Lochbihler.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBUS, KY.}

18th Mlinois, Lieut. Col. Daniel H. Brush.

29th Mlinois, Col. Charles M. Ferrell. 43d T[llinois,§ Col. Adolph Engelmann. 48th Illinois, Col. Isham N. Haynie. 49tb Illinois, Col. William R. Morrison.

54th Illinois, Lieut. Col. Greenville M.

{ Troops not indicated on original. of Cairo.

* Brigade organization not indicated on original return. t Afterward known as the Sixty-sixth [linois eee Brig. Gen. J. M.

61st Ilinois,§ Maj. Simon P. Ohr.

62d Illinois, Col. James M. True. 109th Illinois,§ Col. Alexander J. Nimmo. 122d Illinois, Col. John I. Rinaker.

12th Michigan,§ Lient. Col. William H.

raves, 7th Tennessee, Lieut. Col. Isaac R. Hawkins.

‘atte, commanding Division

§ Post of Bolivar, Brig. Gen. M. Brayman commanding.

1st Dlinois,Battery F,* Capt. John T. Cleney.

1st Illinois, Battery D, Capt. Hevry A. Kogers.

2d Illinois, Battery B, Capt. Relly Madison.

2d Illinois, Battery G, Capt. Frederick Sparrestrom. Springfield (Illinois) battery,t Capt. Thomas F. Vaugh.. 14th Indiana Battery, Capt. Meredith H. Kidd.

14th Ohio Battery, Lieut. Homer H. Stull.

15th Ohio Battery,} Capt. Kdward Spear, jr.

7th Wisconsin Battery, Lieut. Galen E. Green

Cavalry. 2d Illinois, Company A, Capt. John R. 4th Ohio Company, Capt. John S. Foster. Hotaling. 5th Ohio (nine compaunies),§ Col. W. H. 4th Illinois, Col. T. Lyle Dickey. H. Taylor. 11th Dllinois, Maj. Lucien H. Kerr. 6th Tennessee, Col. Fielding Hurst.

12th Dlinois, Company H, Capt. Franklin Hawkins’ Horse. T. Gilbert. 3 Stewart’s Independent Cavalry.§

LA GRANGE, TENN., November 11, 1862. General HAMILTON:

Direct your troops to draw rations as soon as possible to include the 20th, and be prepared for an advance movement when ordered. Tomorrow will be early enough to draw them.