Harman's Regiment Tennessee Infantry

Item CON-8990

Description

Original Civil War Confederate document written in period ink.


June 2, 1862

Headquarters
Davis Mills 5 miles south Grand Junction
Via Holly [Springs]

General Ruggles, Memphis

Reliable scouts says Federals have not finished Hatchie’s Bridge at Pocahontas but are working on it. Captain Harrison’s scouts conjectures that Wallace Column may turn towards Memphis leaving the cavalry from East to take junction. Learning reinforcements would be sent. I have stopped destruction on Mississippi Central Railroad which had just begun.

Colonel Bledsoe Desha Harman
Commanding