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1062 Series I Volume XLIX-I Serial 103 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part I

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ing Colonel H. H. Miller's regiment, Ninth Mississippi, now rendezvousing at Shubuta, to proceed without delay to Carthage, Ala., and report to Lieutenant-Colonel Martin, commanding recruiting camp.

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

J. D. SAYERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Indorsement.]


HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY, DISTRICT OF MISS., EAST LA., AND WEST TENN.,
West Point, Miss., March 17, 1865.

Brigadier-General Chalmers will have the within order carried out, if any portion of Ferguson's brigade is reporting to him.

By order of Major-General Forrest:

P. ELLIS, JR.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY CORPS,
West Point, March 15, 1865.

Brigadier-General CHALMERS:

GENERAL: I am directed by the major-general commanding to say that Adams' brigade is moving across to Macon, and that you will make such arrangements for his command as may be necessary supplying him with forage and rations. He is also in need of arms, ammunition, clothing, &c.

I am, general, very respectfully, yours,

CHAS. W. ANDERSON,

Aide-de-Camp.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. CHALMERS' DIVISION CAVALRY, Numbers 5.
Columbus, Miss., March 15, 1865.

I. Major W. V. Johnson, commissary of subsistence, is announced as acting division commissary during the temporary absence of Major B. S. Crump.

By order of Brigadier-General Chalmers:

W. A. GOODMAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. CHALMERS' DIVISION CAVALRY, Numbers 36.
Columbus, March 15, 1865.

I. The troops of this command will prepare and be ready to move on Friday morning with four days' rations. Ordnance wagons and trains must be loaded and held ready for inspection to-morrow morning. The best wagons of the command will be taken at once for this purpose.

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By order of Brigadier-General Chalmers:

W. A. GOODMAN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.


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