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525 Series I Volume XLV-II Serial 94 - Franklin - Nashville Part II

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ATHENS, January 6, 1865.

Major BEAUMONT,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Direct Generals Long and McCook to send in a list of such regiments of their commands as they wish to have filled up. I have requested authority for Upton's regiments. As soon as these lists are in give them to General Thomas, with request that these regiments may be filled up. Tell Green that 271 horses leave here to-morrow for Nashville. I am glad to know he is making such efforts to recuperate broken-down stock. See General Thomas about stabling materials. Exert yourself to get all men on detached duty belonging to Hatch, Long, McCook, Upton, and Knipe, wherever they may be, sent to Eastport without delay. I have telegraphed to General Thomas about this. Tell Carling that he must find mules somewhere, and stir up everybody connected with the mule department; also to send hay, bran, and horse medicines to Eastport; without these we shall lose many horses. Where are my horses? I am almost afoot. You had better remain in Nashville until I reach Eastport.

J. H. WILSON,

Brevet Major-General.


HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Nashville, January 6, 11865.

Lieutenant Colonel G. G. MINER,
Commanding Dismounted Cavalry:

COLONEL: Order all the mounted men of the Fifth Cavalry Division [General Hatch's] to proceed without delay to Eastport, Ala., via Columbia, Tenn., and Waterloo, Ala. Send the dismounted men to Eastport by steamer. The mounted men can accompany the wagons belonging to the Fifth Division that may be sent to Eastport.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, MILITARY DIVISION

4. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Nashville, Tenn., January 6,
1865.

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II. Brigadier General J. F. Knipe, commanding seventh Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, will proceed to Huntsville, Decatur, and such other points as he may deem necessary, to collect the detachments of his division and bring them to Nashville for the purpose of equipping and preparing them for the field. The quarter-master's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

LEVI T. GRIFFIN,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


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