Which Union General Reynolds is Wirt Adams talking about? Is it General Joseph Jones Reynolds? See below....

Name REYNOLDS, Joseph Jones
Born January 4 1822, Flemingsburg KY
Died February 25 1899, Washington DC
Pre-War Profession Graduated West Point 1843, artillery duty, instructor at West Point, resigned US Army 1857, college professor.
War Service April 1861 Col. of 10th Indiana, May 1861 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded brigade at Cheat Mountain, January 1862 resigned, helped organize Indiana militia, September 1862 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, November 1862 promoted Maj. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded 4th Divn/XIV Corps at Chickamauga, October 1862 chief of Staff in Army of the Cumberland, commanded New Orleans defenses, commanded Department of Arkansas.
Brevet Promotions Brig. Gen. U.S.A. March 2 1867, Maj. Gen. U.S.A. March 2 1867.
Post War Career Army service, duty in Reconstruction, frontier duty, US senator (briefly), court martialed for conduct in a campaign against the Sioux, resigned 1877.

...or someone else?

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(Letter that mentions a Union General Reynolds)

Vol. 17, Part 2, Page 836-37

CAMP ON DEER CREEK, January 15, 1863

Brigadier-General HEBERT,
Commanding at Snyder’s Bluff:

We have had thirty-six hours of constant rain, and this morning the snow and sleet has commenced falling rapidly. Our march has been
temporarily arrested by this weather and the almost impassable condition of the roads.

From a reliable source I learned yesterday that the Yankee fleet was seriously troubled for fuel on its upward passage. It was delayed two days chopping wood and packing off fence rails. I had, when here before, fortunately burned about 10,000 cords of wood on the river bank near Greenville. They stopped at that point and gathered every stray stick remaining. It was whilst engaged in this work for two days near Greenville that General Reynolds, of the Federal Army, who is from Missouri, I think, restored to Mrs. Polk, wife of Dr. Thomas Polk, a pair of carriage horses, stolen from her as the expedition against Vicksburg was descending. He denounced in the strongest terms those acts of pillage of private [property], and discussed with much freedom and force the present war and the objects of its promotion. He states that the people of the West had engaged in this contest solely for the preservation of the Union and the unrestricted navigation of the Mississippi River. That Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation of 1st of January had converted the war into an abolition crusade, which would not be approved by the people of the West, and would entirely estrange them from the Lincoln Government. The recent attack upon Vicksburg had resulted in a bloody repulse and they were fully convinced of the utter impossibility of reducing the place; that the men had refused to renew the attack and were prepared to throw down their arms if it had been insisted on. He went on further to say that a union of New England with the West was impossible; that the natural and proper allies of his section were the Southern States, and to them they would cling.

These are strange utterances for a Federal general and may indicate a radical change of Western sentiment and action. To be sure it may be they were the inspirations of the Vicksburg reverse, but still he would scarcely have Ventured upon such declarations without the conviction of strong support among his own people.

After Lieutenant Bradford’s visit to Milliken’s Bend he proceeded by my instructions directly up the river as far as Greenville. He has not yet returned to the command. I will write you fully the result of his observations.

The roads above the Rolling Fork of Deer Creek, leading in the direction of the Yazoo, are utterly impassable. In addition to their recent obstruction I learn that the rain-water has accumulated so rapidly that it is now swimming to a horse.

A returned prisoner observed on a map of this river district, hanging in the commanding general’s office at Memphis, a mark on Greenville with a corresponding foot-note to the effect that this region abounded in corn and large amounts of Government cotton. So they do not lack information.
Yours, very truly,
WIRT ADAMS.

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David Upton