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(3-01) Site of Old Auburn. View
looking east. Two divisions of Sherman's Corps camped here the night of
May 11 |
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(3-01)
Whitaker Ford on Fourteenmile Creek. View looking north up the Historic Telegraph Road,
four miles north of Old Port Gibson Road. On May 12 McClernand's Corps
turned north on Telegraph Road, to strike the railroad at Edwards
Station. Just south of the creek, the Federal vanguard encountered
dismounted Confederate cavalry. After a brisk skirmish the troopers were
forced to retire across the creek to a fortified line south of Edwards
Station. The Federals chased the Confederates only as far as Mt. Moriah,
a mile and a half north
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