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GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,

MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,


Numbers 3.
Nashville, Tenn., November 24, 1864.

The following flags have been adopted for the corps, divisions, and brigades of the Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi: Corps flag: scarlet swallow tail, four feet wide by six feet long, crossed sabers of yellow. Division flag: white swallow tail, three feet six inches wide by five feet long, crossed sabers of blue; figures of the division in scarlet block letters above and below the intersection of the sabers; staff surmounted by a spear head. First Brigade flag: two horizontal stripes, scarlet and white, of equal width, in form of a swallow tail, the whole thing three feet wide by four feet six inches long, crossed sabers of blue; figures of the division in block letters above and below the intersection of the cross sabers, a white figure in the scarlet stripe, and a scarlet figure in the white stripe; staff same as for divisions. Second Brigade flag: two horizontal stripes, scarlet and blue, of the same form and dimensions as for First Brigade, crossed sabers of white; figures of the division of blue in the scarlet stripe and of scarlet in the blue stripe, placed as for First Brigade; staff same as for First Brigade. When a Third Brigade is authorized, the flag will be two horizontal stripes, white and blue, same dimensions as for the other brigade flags, crossed sabers of scarlet; figures of the division above and below intersection of sabers, blue in white stripe and white in blue stripe; staff same as for other brigades. The corps quartermaster has been directed to procure these flags, and he will issue them as soon as received.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Nashville, Tenn., November 24, 1864.

Major H. F. NICHOLSON,

Second Michigan Cavalry, Commanding Detachment First Division:

MAJOR: March your detachment of General Croxton's brigade, without delay, to Columbia, Tenn., and report to Brevet Major-General Wilson for orders. The Eleventh Indiana will march for the same point at 12 m. You had better join them on the march.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Nashville, Tenn., November 24, 1864.

Colonel I. GARRARD, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry:

COLONEL: You will take command of the troops ordered to march to-morrow in charge of a train for Columbia with supplies for General Schofield's army. Upon your arrival at Columbia you will report to Brevet Major-General Wilson for orders.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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