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229 Series I Volume XXXII-II Serial 58 - Forrest's Expedition Part II

Page 229 Chapter XLIV. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

J. H. Newbell ............................................... $100

J. M. Morris ................................................ 100

David Reynolds .............................................. 250

B. Abernathy ................................................ 200

Thomas D. Bailey ............................................ 200

Colonel J. B. Weaver, Second Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers, commanding post at Pulaski, Tenn., is hereby charged with the execution of this order.

By order of Brigadier General G. M. Dodge:

J. W. BARNES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. CAV. DIV., 16TH ARMY CORPS,

Numbers 30.
Memphis, Tenn., January 26, 1864.

I. Colonel J. K. Mizner will immediately cause the Third Michigan Cavalry to be mustered as veteran volunteers and move with them to Memphis, turning over those of the Third Michigan and Seventh Kansas who have not re-enlisted to the Second Iowa Cavalry at Memphis. The dismounted men of the First Alabama Cavalry will be sent by rail, with their camp and Garrison equipage, to Memphis; the mounted men will move by common road to the same point.

II. Colonel Edward Prince, commanding Seventh Illinois Cavalry, will, as soon as the infantry shall have left La Grange, send his train with camp and garrison equipage and sufficient escort by wagon road to Germantown, Tenn., and such surplus stores as cannot be carried in wagons will be sent by rail.

Colonel Prince will then remain with the effective force of his command, except guard for train, at La Grange until further orders.

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By order of Brigadier General B. H. Grierson:

S. L. WOODWARD,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENNESSEE,


Numbers 10.
Memphis, January 26, 1864.

I. Brigadier General Isaac F. Shepard, U. S. Volunteers, will proceed to Vicksburg and report to Brigadier-General Hawkins for orders.

By order of Major General W. T. Sherman:

L. M. DAYTON,

Aide-de-Camp.

SAINT LOUIS, MO., January 27, 1864.

(Received 6.30 p. m.)

Major-General HALLECK,

General-in-Chief:

Understanding that General Schofield is ordered to report to me, I would request that he be assigned to the command of the Department of the Ohio and General Stoneman ot command of Twenty-


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