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1251 Series I Volume XLV-I Serial 93 - Franklin - Nashville Part I

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MACON, November 27, 1864-11.45 a.m . (Via Savannah. Received December 1.)

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.:

General Roddey reports from Corinth, 26th, that enemy evacuated Decatur, burning his large store-house filled with provisions and stores, abandoning saddles and fifteen pontoon boats, secured by Colonel Windes, who pressed the enemy closely. Nothing new from General Hood.

G. T. BEAUREGARD,

General.

(Copy sent to the President, Secretary of War, and General Bragg.)

MONTGOMERY, ALA., November 27, 1864.

General G. T. BEAUREGARD,

Macon, Ga.:

Following just received:

Following reported by Colonel Maury: "Enemy have 2,000 cavalry at Pensacola; expecting 2,000 additional infantry. Enemy have light-draught boats to land troops in Mobile Bay, or ascend the Perdido; intend to attack Mobile; will move on Blakely, via Camp Withers." The fleet of observation off Mobile increased; unusual number of vessels reported off Point Clear to-day.

D. H. MAURY,

Major-General.

GEORGE WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

MONTGOMERY, ALA., November 27, 1864.

General G. T. BEAUREGARD,

Macon, Ga.:

Henderson's scouts report column several hundred Yankees moving from Benton to Vaughn Station rapidly at 10 a. m.

GEORGE WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

MACON, GA., November 27, 1864-8 p. m.

Colonel G. W. BRENT,

Chief of Staff, Montgomery, Ala:

Should General Maury believe Mobile seriously threatened he must call again on Governor Clark and General Withers for all the troops they can furnish him, and General Adams must hold himself ready to support him at a moment's notice, if not already under orders to that effect.

G. T. BEAUREGARD,

General.


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