I determined, therefore, to abandon my campaign into the interior with Columbus as a base, and returned to La Grange and Grand Junction destroying the road to my front and repairing the road to Memphis, making the Mississippi river the line over which to draw supplies.
Grant recounts his decision to abandon a campaign and shift his supply line strategy to the Mississippi River.
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