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of guy-lines and any kind of weights, which can be easily obtained, would be sufficient to enable me to bridge any stream you might desire to cross. Balks and chesses are already prepared for 50 of these boats and will be fore the remainder within a week.
I have the honor to be, general, with the highest respect, your obedient servant,
SAML. H . LOCKETT,
Lieutenant Colonel and Chief Engr., Dept. of Ala., Miss., and E. La.
HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY,
Tupelo, Miss., May 7, 1864.[General CHALMERS:]
GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs me to say that having been ordered to Demopolis for a few days he directs that you assume command of the forces. You will please make such arrangements in order that the inspection may go on from day to day.
Very respectfully, &c.,
W. N. M. OTEY,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. 1ST DIV., FORREST'S CAV. DEPT., Numbers 50.
Verona, Miss., May 7, 1864.I. Captain A. T. Wimberly, commanding company, having reported with his company at these headquarters in compliance with orders from headquarters Forrest's Cavalry, is assigned, at his own request, to the Eighteenth MISSISSIPPI Battalion, Partisan Rangers, and will report with his company to Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmers, commanding battalions, at Abbeville.
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By order of Brigadier-General Chalmers:
W. A. GOODMAN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF EAST TENNESSEE,Abingdon, Va., May 8, 1864.
Brigadier General J. C. VAUGHN,
Commanding Cavalry Brigade:
GENERAL: A dispatch just received from Brigadier-General Jones directs me to send a courier to you and request that you will move your command to Saltville with all practicable speed.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. L. SANDFORD,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF EAST TENNESSEE,
Abingdon, Va., May 8, 1864.Brigadier General J. C. VAUGHN,
Commanding Cavalry Brigade:
GENERAL: I am directed by the brigadier-general commanding to order your command to move at once to Saltville, Va. The picket will be withdrawn from Kingsport and instructed to follow the course of
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