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Baskerville Hooe Mouton
Report of Col. Alfred Mouton, Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry on Operations Around Crump's Landing, March 12, 1862.

HDQRS. 4TH BRIGADE, 1ST CORPS, 2D GRAND DIV.,
ARMY OF MISSISSIPPI VALLEY,
Near Corinth, nine miles towards Pittsburg, March 12, 1862.

SIR: A mounted courier has just reached me with a verbal message from Major [Charles] Baskerville, stating the the enemy had landed a force at Crump's Landing 18,000 strong, firing upon the cavalry pickets, driving them in. The same courier informs me that a regiment of infantry, a company of our artillery, and all the cavalry are retreating on Purdy.

Yours, respectfully,

ALFR. MOUTON,
Colonel Eighteenth Regiment Louisiana Vols.,
Comdg. Fourth Brig., C. S. Forces, Mississippi Valley.

CAPT. Roy Mason Hooe, A. A. G., Corinth, Miss.

SOURCE: Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series 1, Volume 10, Part 1 pg. 15

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