Leave Petersburg for Jackson, Miss.--Visit Home--My Division 178
Composed of the Brigades of Gens. Maxey, Evans, and
McNair--Extraordinary Correspondence between Gen. Johnston and
President Davis--Movements to Attack Grant at Vicksburg--Fall of
Vicksburg--Retreat to Jackson--Siege of Jackson--Visit
Home--Negro Troops Surround the House--Narrow
Escape--Vandalism--Johnston Takes Command of the Army of
Tennessee--Polk in Command of Army of Mississippi--A Court of
Inquiry That Was Not Held--My Division at Meridian--President
Davis--Jackson Burned--Sherman's Advance on Meridian--Ordered to
Mobile--Polk Crossing Tombigbee River--He Is Slow to Move--Go to
Demopolis--Mr. Fournier--Sent to
Lauderdale--Tuscaloosa--Montevallo--Reach Rome--Fight at
Rome--Join Gen. Johnston at Cassville