January 28, 1864
---In East Tennessee, the victorious Gen. Samuel Sturgis,
commanding Foster’s cavalry, pushes his divisions forward towards Dandridge,
and collides with Frank Armstrong’s division of Confederate cavalry. The Federals push forward in time to see
Rebel infantry crossing the river towards them, at least three brigades
strong. Sturgis decides these odds are
too severe, and conducts a fighting retreat.
---Alexander G. Downing, a young sergeant in the 11th
Iowa Infantry Regiment, writes in his journal about the Army of the Tennessee,
under the command of William T. Sherman, gearing up for the Meridian campaign:
Thursday, 28th—Some of the troops
that are going out on an expedition to Meridian, started on their way this
morning. It is rumored that the Seventeenth and Sixteenth Army Corps are to
make a raid across the State of Mississippi for the purpose of destroying the
railroad running from Vicksburg to Meridian, and that General Sherman is to be
in command of the expedition.
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