General Grierson is with you, and is familiar with the whole country.

I will send up from Haines's Bluff an expedition of gunboats and transports combined, to feel up the Yazoo as far as the present water will permit.

This will disconcert the enemy.

My movement on Jackson will also divide the enemy, so that by no combination can he reach you with but a part of his force.

I wish you to attack any force of cavalry you meet and follow them southward, but in no event be drawn into the forks of the streams that make up the Yazoo nor over into Alabama.