This enabled him to move with great rapidity, but deprived him of his wagon trains, and of all munitions of war except cartridges.
For my back had fairly got stiffened about these munitions, and I was going to take any risk to see them safely delivered to their proper owner.
Grant destroyed the factories and the munitions of war which were gathered there, and also came into possession of the line of railroad which ran from Jackson to Vicksburg.