If Gorman will send them, instruct them where to go and how to communicate with me.

My headquarters will probably be in Coffeeville one week hence....

In the mean time I will order transportation, etc....

It would be well if you could have two or three small boats suitable for navigating the Yazoo.

It may become necessary for me to look to that base for supplies before we get through....
U.S.GRANT, Major-General.
When we rode to Oxford from College Hill, there happened a little circumstance which seems worthy of record.