Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . econd, and Forty-eighth Ohio, was sent out tosee about it. They came upon a party of Rebels, perhapsa thousand strong, and after a sharp little action drovethem off, losing Major Crocket, of the Seventy-secondOhio, and a< couple of lieutenants from the Seventieth,prisoners, taking in return some sixteen, and driving theRebels back to a battery they were found to have alreadyin position, at no great distance from our lines. GeneralLew. Wallaces troops, at Crumps Landing, were orderedout under arms, and they marched to Adamsville, half-waybetween the river and
Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . econd, and Forty-eighth Ohio, was sent out tosee about it. They came upon a party of Rebels, perhapsa thousand strong, and after a sharp little action drovethem off, losing Major Crocket, of the Seventy-secondOhio, and a< couple of lieutenants from the Seventieth,prisoners, taking in return some sixteen, and driving theRebels back to a battery they were found to have alreadyin position, at no great distance from our lines. GeneralLew. Wallaces troops, at Crumps Landing, were orderedout under arms, and they marched to Adamsville, half-waybetween the river and Purdy, to take position there andresist any attack in that direction. The night passed indreary rain, but without further Rebel demonstration ; andit was generally supposed that the affair had been an ordi-nary picket-fight, presaging nothing more. Major-Gen-eral Grarlt had indeed said there was great probability of aRebel attack, but there were no appearances of his makingany preparations for such an unlooked-for event, and so. MAJOR GENERAL SLOCUM. THE REBEL DESIGNS. 147 the matter was dismissed. Yet on Saturday there wasmore skirmishing along our advanced lines. There can be no doubt the plan of the Rebel leaders wasto attack and demolish Grants army before Buells re-in-forcements arrived. There were rumors, indeed, that sucha movement had been expressly ordered from headquartersat Richmond, as being absolutely necessary, as a last boldstroke, to save the falling fortunes of the Confederacy in theWest; though of that, no one, I presume, knows anything. But the Rebel leaders at Corinth were fully aware thatthey largely outnumbered Grant, and that no measures hadbeen taken to strengthen the position at Pittsburgh Landing;while they knew equally well that when Buells entire Ken-tucky army arrived, and was added to Grants forces, theycould not possibly expect to hold their vitally importantposition at Corinth against us. Their only hope, thereforelay in attacking Grant before B
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