Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897 to Braxton Bragg

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GLC#
GLC02460.13-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
22 June 1862
Author/Creator
Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897
Title
to Braxton Bragg
Place Written
Grenada, Mississippi
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 19.8 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Discusses various troop movements in Mississippi. States "General Van Dorn orders Breckinridges Corps and Six Thousand men from my Command forward to Vicksburg. General Villipigue telegraphs that his command is independent. He has all my armed troops, and calls on me to defend the Memphis and Tenn Rail Road route!" It is reported that "Holly Springs is reoccupied by the Enemy and that General Sherman has twenty five thousand men at Grand Junction." Verso states that the letter was telegramed to General Bragg. For the next year Vicksburg would be a heavily contested city.

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