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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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