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•On July 14, General
Johnston gave the entire cavalry an assignment that proved beyond their capacity to
carry out. Johnston ordered the Cavalry to intercept a huge ammunition
train caring
the massive shipment of cannon shells that all Sherman to continue his fire. The
entire division
of some three thousand riders then bore down on the main road to Vicksburg where the
ammunition train rumbled along between Bolton and Clinton. Sherman had
all ready
learned of the plans from a prisoner and was waiting.