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

Page 949 Chapter LVII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

TILTON, November 19, 1864.

Major S. B. MOE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

The track is taken up to within a quarter of a mile of this place. There are 370 men here belonging to the Sixth Indiana Cavalry and Sixty-eighth Indiana Infantry. Shall I burn the railroad bridge at this place?

GEO. A. POTEET,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH,
Chattanooga, November 19, 1864.

Colonel POTEET,

Tilton, Ga.;

In the morning you can move your command half way from Tilton to Dalton, leaving the men belonging to the Sixth Indiana Cavalry and the Sixty-eighth Indiana Infantry with the working party. Keep a good lookout in the direction of La Fayette. You will not burn the bridge.

By command of Major-General Steedman:

S. B. MOE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
PULASKI, TENN., November 19, 1864.


Numbers 34.

I. In compliance with orders, Brigadier General R. W. Johnson having assumed command of the Post of Pulaski and the troops, thereby relieving me, and being ordered to other duty, I have only to bid my comrades in arms, officers and soldiers, farewell, trusting that your future may as bright as the past and that you will work on and add to the laurels and reputation which you have already gained and won.

II. Staff officers, existing my aides, Lieutenants Hazzard and Chamberlain, will report to the general commanding for duty or to be relieved, as he may determine.

III. To my staff officers and their subordinates I tender my thanks for their untiring industry and attention to duty.

JOHN C. STARKWEATHER,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Nashville, November 19, 1864.

Brigadier-General AMMEN,

Knoxville:

Do not send the re-enforcements from Chattanooga farther the Knoxville, unless it is absolutely necessary, as they are not able to march. Return them to Chattanooga as soon as you can dispense with their services.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.


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