(MAP.)

NOTE-A, B, C,* D, E, F, and G are points referred to in my instructions to division commanders under date of December 23, 1862. Map is erroneous at the point D.

There is no terra firma between the country road and the Yazoo until above the Skillet Goliah. All this ground is swampy and cut up impossible bayous.-SHERMAN.

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* " C" Not found in original.-COMPILER.

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