HDQRS. DEPARTMENT AND ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
Gordon’s Mills, May 6, 1864.
Major General W. T. SHERMAN,
Commanding Military Division of the Mississippi, Ringgold:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your two dispatches, per Captain Audenried, and will endeavor to carry out my part of the program faithfully. My troops will be up to this point to-night and will camp at the point designated to-morrow night. Garrard reports by telegraph that he will camp this side of the Tennessee River to-night, not far from Bridgeport. Corse, I presume, has met him before this. General Stevenson reports from Decatur that Roddey is still hanging around with his force, but is getting short of provisions and forage. Forrest is reported to have left Jackson last Tuesday morning in the direction of Corinth. Most of Polk’s forces, he says, are at Tuscaloosa and fortifying on the east side of the Black Warrior.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAS. B. McPHERSON,
Major-General, Commanding.