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460, General Charles Clark, afterward Governor of Mississippi, the division commander of the troops we are now writing of:

In General Bragg's Official Reports we find the following:

This is seemingly borne out by the instructions in paragraph ii, of the above mentioned special order, in which after providing for the movement of the right wing of General Bragg's corps, by the Monterey and Savannah road to Mickey's, it goes on to say:

As General Polk was marching by this same Bark road, just in rear of the third corps, the carrying out of the above instructions would have brought him on the night of the 4th about where General Bragg says he was, in rear of his corps. But that they were not carried out is shown by this note.