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119 Series I Volume XXXIX-II Serial 78 - Allatoona Part II

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HDQRS. THIRD Brigadier, THIRD DIV., 16TH ARMY CORPS, Memphis, Tenn., June 14, 1864.

Lieutenant JAMES B. COMSTOCK,
Actg. Asst. Adjt. General, THIRD Div., SIXTEENTH Army Corps:

LIEUTENANT: I have the honor to report that my command has returned to camp, having accomplished the object for which it was sent, viz, to enable General Sturgis to withdraw his forces. Not a man was lost, nor a gun fired. I have no list of casualties nor expenditure of ammunition to report.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. H. WOLFE,

Colonel, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Memphis, Tenn., June 14, 1864.

Major General A. J. SMITH,
Commanding Detachment SIXTEENTH Army Corps:

GENERAL: You will order your entire force to be in readiness to march on the morning of the 16th instant. You will have 3,000 infantry at the cars by 6 a. m., and the remainder of your command by 2 p. m. of said day. The force will take there days' rations in haversacks. You will instruct your quartermaster to have all the wagons belonging to your command in readiness to received commissary stores for any forty rounds of ammunition in cartridge- boxes. The artillery will be prepared to move on the morning of the 16th instant, with full supply of ammunition.

By order of Major-General Washburn:

W. H. MORGAN,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

WHITE'S STATION, June 14, 1864.

Major-General WASHBURN, Memphis:

Have ordered infantry guard for the train. Sent small patrol beyond Germantown this morning, who returned, assisting about 100 stragglers in getting in. Have sent 100 cavalry to La Fayette and am sending 50 more to Germantown to remain until the 100 return from La Fayette. I suggest that rations be sent to Colonel Wolfe's brigade, and that they be allowed to remain here for a day or two.

B. H. GRIERSON,

Brigadier-General.

LEXINGTON, KY., June 15, 1864.

Governor Thomas E. BRAMLETTE,

Frankfort, Ky.:

The general commanding desires that your order the [Ninth] Pennsylvania Veteran Cavalry to move at once and rapidly toward Lawrenceburg, Harrodsburg, Danville, Stanford, Mount Sterling, Manchester, Hazard, and Whitesburg, to Pound Gap, and return via Prestonburg, Salyersville, Hazel Green, Mount Sterling, and Lexington. Let the commanding


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