Sherman Meridian: A rehearsal for the March to the Sea.

I agree… Smith was 10 days late up to the point that Sherman made the decision to return from Meridian to Vicksburg on 20 Feb 1864. Smith as you know did not make it at all to Meridian. “No plan of operations reaches with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main force." - Helmuth van Moltke (circa 1880). Hence the Military saying: "the first casualty of combat are your plans."
 
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