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Page 1042 KY., SW. VA., TENN., MISS., ALA., AND N. GA. Chapter LVII.

Harvey Heywood, Fourth Michigan Cavalry, aide-de-camp and topographical engineer; Second Lieutenant William G. Lawder, First Ohio Cavalry, aide-de-camp; Second Lieutenant Samuel C. Dixon, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, provost-marshal.

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By order of Colonel R. H. G. Minty:

ROBERT BURNS,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Columbia, Tenn., November 25, 1864.

Brigadier-General JOHNSON,

Commanding Sixth Division, Cavalry Corps:

GENERAL: The general commanding directs me to inform you that General Croxton, with his brigade, has been ordered to report to you for duty temporarily.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN N. ANDREWS,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Columbia, Tenn., November 25, 1864.

Brigadier-General JOHNSON,

Commanding Sixth Division, Cavalry Corps:

GENERAL: The general commanding directs me to request you to send a guard into this town to drive out the stragglers, who are reported committing depredations.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. N. ANDREWS,

Captain, 8th U. S. Infty., and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Columbia, Tenn., November 25, 1864-2 p.m.

Brigadier General R. W. JOHNSON,

Commanding Sixth Division, Cavalry Corps:

General Schofield wishes a reconnaissance made from the left of the line to the Mount Pleasant pike. You will take Capron's brigade and move out at once on the Lynnville pike till you have cleared the lines of our troops, and then move to the right as far out as possible till you have accomplished the object of the reconnaissance, finding the enemy, and, as nearly as may be, strength and composition of forces. Having done this return to your camp.

J. H. WILSON,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.


HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Columbia, Tenn., November 25, 1864-7 p.m.

Brigadier General R. W. JOHNSON,

Commanding Sixth Division, Cavalry Corps:

GENERAL: Send without delay one squadron of cavalry up Duck River to the crossing of the Lewisburg and Nashville pike. From


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