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

Captain R. C. RANKIN,

Commanding Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry:

You will have your command in readiness to march at 2 p.m. to-morrow. Report without delay to Colonel I. Garrard, Seventh Ohio Cavalry, at Camp Webster, to whose command you are assigned.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Lieutenant-Colonel Bridges, commanding Tenth Tennessee Cavalry, and Lieutenant-Colonel Hoefing, commanding Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry.)

NASHVILLE, TENN., November 24, 1864.

Brigadier General R. W. JOHNSON,

Columbia:

Assume command of the troops belonging to this district now at Columbia, and hold your post at that place, subject to orders of senior officer there.

By command of Major-General Rousseau:

B. H. POLK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SIXTH DIV., CAV. CORPS,

MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,


Numbers 1.
Columbia, Tenn., November 24, 1864.

In pursuance to orders from Brevet Major-General Wilson, commanding the Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, the undersigned hereby assumes command of the Sixth Division of the Cavalry Corps. The staff will hereafter be announced in orders.

R. W. JOHNSON,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.


HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Columbia, Tenn., November 24, 1864-2 p.m.

Brigadier General R. W. JOHNSON,

Commanding Sixth Cavalry Division:

GENERAL: Please send a squadron, under a good active officer, out on the Lynnville pike, with orders to go till he passes the rear of Waters' brigade, or to the neighborhood of the Campbellsville road, and endeavor to find General Hatch. He was at 9 p.m. last night four miles beyond Campbellsvile on the road toward Lawrenceburg, and trying to reach the military road, passing through Campbellsville this morning. After the officer has found General Hatch let him order him to march direct to this place by the pike if possible. Should he not be able to keep on the pike, and have to pass to the eastward, direct him to cross the Duck River as near this place as convenient, and report his condition and locality.

J. H. WILSON,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.


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