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Towards the day of twelfth, I was ordered of the General McArthur to keep during the Benton to help you guard the newest means by the Lexington path to the 1st Brigade plus one part of Bolton’s Battery, while the he toward most other troops decided to go to Moore’s Ferry, to the Large Black colored, through the Canton highway, with the good reconnoisance, coming back an equivalent big date. In the five o’clock an effective. m. toward 13th, the latest expedition been to own Vaughan’s Route toward Mississippi Main Railroad, the 1st Brigade about get better. I ordered new 76th Illinois toward support a section of artillery required of the Lieut. Nichols, who, also a type of skirmishers about 76th Illinois Infantry, drove the brand new challenger off their position. The fresh line after that gone forward within the regular acquisition off march across the road regarding the one-and-a-half kilometers, if adversary is once again receive released from inside the a strong status which have around three bits of weaponry. Continue reading …