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| | Campaigns, Expaditions and Raids of the Civil War |
 | | Assuming departmental command on October 25, by November 8, Grant had his troops gathered around La Grange, Tennessee, north of the Mississippi state line, just a few miles west of Grand Junction, Tennessee. |
 | | Suppliea were to come south from Columbus, Kentucky, by way of the Tennessee and Ohio Railroad and at Grand Junction switch onto the Mississippi Central track for the journey south. |
 | | When Pemberton requested aid from Gen. Braxton Bragg in Tennessee, Bragg told Pemberton that he was preparing for his Murfreesboro campaigning (which would end in the Battle of Stones River) and could offer no material assistance; but he could order Forrest's cavalry to hit Grant's supply lines. |
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