id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 5862 Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 3. .txt text/plain 44600 2188 72 General Sherman commanded on the right at Memphis with two of his reinforcement of near 8,000 men, General Ord in command. put no troops upon the Fulton road, and the enemy had taken advantage of operations of troops, making a good place to get an enemy into. from General Halleck saying that I had command of all the troops sent to On the 20th I ordered General McClernand with the entire command, to The enemy occupied Grand Gulf, Haines' Bluff and Jackson with a force of McClernand's advance met the enemy about five miles west of Port Gibson road could be cleared of McClernand's troops I ordered up McPherson, who Vicksburg, and gave orders to all my corps commanders. On the 18th I moved along the Vicksburg road in advance of the troops Sherman was ordered back to Vicksburg, and his troops took much the same ./cache/5862.txt ./txt/5862.txt