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891 Series I Volume XLV-I Serial 93 - Franklin - Nashville Part I

Page 891 Chapter LVII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

CHATTANOOGA, November 14, 1864-8.50 p. m.

General AMMEN:

Do you need any assistance from me? Answer.

JAS. B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General.

RESACA, November 14, 1864.

Major-General STEEDMAN:

I will leave the One hundred and fifteenth Illinois at this place, nearly 400 strongly, the Sixty-eighth Indiana at Tilton, with detachment Sixth Indiana Cavalry, making 400 at that place, which will enable them to patrol road thoroughly. The artillery will come on last train with the troops, as the track is unmoved. Have you any orders?

Respectfully,

S. B. MOE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH,
Chattanooga, November 14, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE A. POTEET,

Commanding 115th Illinois Volunteers, Resaca:

Cars sufficient to remove all Government property will be furnished. Your command will need no cars. They will march back with he working party, protecting them while taking up the track, until further orders. You will retain six days' rations for your men.

JAMES B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Pulaski, Tenn., November 14, 1864.

THOMAS E. BRAMLETTE,

Governor of Kentucky:

GOVERNOR: I have just received your letter of October 12, relative to the organization of troops for the protection of Kentucky and asking that the Fourteenth Kentucky Infantry be sent to the State. I am glad to inform you that the regiment has been ordered back, with three others, and I have no doubt will be able to do good service in the way you suggest. I have referred your letter to Major-General Stoneman, who now acts in my stead as commander of the department. Please confer with him on the subject.

I am, Governor, very respectfully, your obedient,

J. M. SCHOFIELD,

Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Pulaski, Tenn., November 14, 1864.

Major General GEORGE STONEMAN,

Commanding Department of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky.:

GENERAL: I have received your letter* of the 10th inclosing a list of the regiments and batteries serving in Kentucky. The muster out of

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*See Vol. XXXIX, Part III, p. 737.

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