Grenville Dodge: “They used canister against those columns with terrible effect.”

What we need are troops, supplies for them, and a vigorous campaign against these hostile Indians.

The most astounding orders and contracts for supplies of all kinds have been made, and large amounts purported to have been received, but there is nothing to show that they have ever been properly issued and they cannot now be found.

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.

They crawled in on their hands and knees, and swept the enemy from that front.