Grenville Dodge: “I predict that if more troops are not sent into this district immediately, this road will be stripped of every ranch and…”

Colonel Dodge, in order to discover the position of the enemy on his right, directed his firing to cease, when a thousand rebel plush caps and black broad brims popped up into view from the bushes, and, forming, they advanced with great…

The men, if properly officered, would make good soldiers, but with their present officers they are little better than an armed mob.

They never fell under my command again, but on every field that they fought they won the praise of their commanders, and General Grant ordered that they should place on their banners, "First at Chickasaw Bayou.

I have heard of brave acts, but such determined pluck I never before dreamed of.