| Bovina |
| May 17, 1863 |
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| Major-General Forney |
| Vicksburg |
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| Send a train of cars here {on
the Southern (of Mississippi) RR}. The enemy's
artillery has opened at the intrenchments at Big Black. Should they
succeed in crossing at Bridgeport, it will be necessary to draw troops from Snyder's Mill.
Subsistence must now be gotten into Vicksburg
from that quarter as soon as possible, in the possible event of the
evacuation of Snyder's. Ammunition must be destroyed, guns double
charged and forced, unless they can be removed, and everything
destroyed that cannot be removed. |
| J. C. Pemberton |
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