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836 Series I Volume XXX-III Serial 52 - Chickamauga Part III

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Weekly report of regiments, detachments, &c., of cavalry command, September 24, 1863, Brig. General R. B. Mitchell commanding.

Command Commander Station

First Division Colonel E. M. McCook Sevely Springs

First Brigade Colonel Do.

A. P. Campbell

2nd Michigan Major John C. Dallas

Cavalry Godley

9th Pennsylvania Lieutenant-Colonel Sevely Springs

Cavalry Russell

1st East Tennessee Lieutenant Colonel Do.

Cavalry J. P. Brownlow

Second Brigade Colonel D. M. Ray Do.

2nd Indiana Cavalry Major J. B. Presdee Do.

4th Indiana Cavalry Lieutenant -Colonel Do.

Deweese

2nd East Tennessee Lieutenant Colonel Jasper

Cavalry W. R. Cook

3rd East Tennessee Colonel W. C. Pickens Nashville

Cavalry

1st Wisconsin Colonel O. H. La Sevely Springs

Cavalry Grange

Section Battery D, Lieutenant N. M. Do.

1st Ohio Volunteer Newell

Artillery

Third Brigade Colonel L. D. Watkins Do.

4th Kentucky Colonel Wickliffe Do.

Cavalry Cooper

5th Kentucky Lieutenant Colonel Near Kelley's Ford

Cavalry W. T. Hoblitzell

6th Kentucky Lieutenant Colonel Sevely Springs

Cavalry Roper

7th Kentucky Lieutenant Colonel Nashville

Cavalry J. K. Faulkner

Second Division Brig. General George Near Island Ferry

Crook

First Brigade Colonel R. H. G. On scout in search

Minty of forage

7th Pennsylvania Colonel James J. Do.

Cavalry Seibert

4th Michigan Major Horace Gray Do.

Cavalry

4th U. S. Cavalry Captain J. B. Do.

McIntyre

3rd Indiana Cavalry Lieutenant Colonel Pikeville, Tenn.

[detachment] Robert Klein

Second Brigade Colonel Eli Long Near Island Ferry

1st Ohio Volunteer Major Patten Island Ferry, Tenn.

Cavalry

3rd Ohio Volunteer Lieutenant Colonel Do.

Cavalry Seidel

4th Ohio Volunteer Lieutenant Colonel Do.

Cavalry O. P. Robie

2nd Kentucky Colonel T. P. Do.

Cavalry Nicholas

Third Brigade Colonel William W.

Lowe

5th Iowa Cavalry Lieutenant Colonel

Patrick

10th Ohio Volunteer Colonel C. C. Smith Not heard from

Cavalry since leaving

Stevenson.

1st Middle Lieutenant Colonel

Tennessee Cavalry Galbraith

Stokes' Battery, Captain James H. Island Ferry, Tenn.

Illinois Artillery Stokes

NEAR CHATTANOOGA, September 25, 1863.

ROBT. B. MITCHELL,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Cavalry.

WM. H. SINCLAIR,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. FIRST BRIG., FOURTH DIV., 14TH ARMY CORPS, Friar's Island, September 24, 1863.

Captain SINCLAIR,
Assistant Adjutant-General:

The force under my command is disposed as follows:

Second Michigan Cavalry at Dallas, with instructions to send one company to Soddy Shoals Ford, to camp and fortify by digging rifle-pits or constructing breastworks of rails or logs, and to patrol the river day and night between the two points.

Ninety-second Illinois at Harrison, with instructions to picket the river above and below whenever necessary.

One hundred and twenty-third Illinois and four pieces of artillery on the left bank of North Chickamauga, picketing the river and commanding the country opposite as far as the artillery can throw a shell.

Seventy-second Indiana and Seventeenth Indiana, with two rifled guns and three mountain howitzers, on the right bank of North


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