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1038 Series I Volume XLV-I Serial 93 - Franklin - Nashville Part I

Page 1038 KY., SW. VA., TENN., MISS., ALA., AND N. GA. Chapter LVII.

mishing with the rebels. The commanding officer of the regiment thinks he developed nothing but cavalry, though when he had got farthest to the front it was so dark he could scarcely distinguish cavalry from infantry.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. H. WILSON,

Brevet Major-General.

NASHVILLE, November 25, 1864.

Major CAMPBELL:

Two supply trains, with the Second Division, headquarters and ammunition train, leave this m. for Columbia, under guard of Colonel Garrard's cavalry. The above trains are in charge of Lieutenant Williams, acting assistant quartermaster, and number about seventy-five wagons.

GEO. C. WINSLOW,

Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.


HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
Columbia, Tenn., November 25, 1864.

Brigadier-General WAGNER,

Commanding Second Division:

The general commanding directs that you detail from your division one brigade, to report for duty at once to Brigadier-General Ruger to work on the inner line of fortifications. Let them take their arms and pioneer tools. In case there are indications of an attack, the brigade will repair at once to their position in your own line.

I am, your obedient servant,

W. H. SINCLAIR,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS SECOND DIVISION, FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
Columbia, November 25, 1864.

Brigadier-General GROSE,

Commanding Second Brigade:

GENERAL: The general commanding directs me to inform you that he has sent four regiments from Colonel Opdycke's brigade on a reconnaissance on the Pulaski road. He desires that you hold your command in readiness to support the front line of our division at a moment's notice. He also directs that you send the commanding officer of the Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteers to report to Colonel Opdycke, for the purpose of re-enforcing his line during the temporary absence of his four regiments.

I am, general, your obedient servant,

GEORGE LEE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


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