[The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant Part 3. by Ulysses S. Grant]@TWC D-Link bookThe Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant Part 3. CHAPTER XXXV 35/36
Logan alone captured 1,300 prisoners and eleven guns. Hovey captured 300 under fire and about 700 in all, exclusive of 500 sick and wounded whom he paroled, thus making 1,200. McPherson joined in the advance as soon as his men could fill their cartridge-boxes, leaving one brigade to guard our wounded.
The pursuit was continued as long as it was light enough to see the road.
The night of the 16th of May found McPherson's command bivouacked from two to six miles west of the battlefield, along the line of the road to Vicksburg. Carr and Osterhaus were at Edward's station, and Blair was about three miles south-east; Hovey remained on the field where his troops had fought so bravely and bled so freely.
Much war material abandoned by the enemy was picked up on the battle-field, among it thirty pieces of artillery.
I pushed through the advancing column with my staff and kept in advance until after night.
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