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611 Series I Volume XLIX-II Serial 104 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part II

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east of the Chattahoochee River has ended. Communicate this to General Taylor at Meridian by telegram.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOSEPH LYMAN,

Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. C. ANDREWS,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

MERIDIAN, May 4, 1865.

Brigadier General C. C. ANDREWS,

Commanding U. S. Forces:

GENERAL: The following dispatch received to-day is conveyed to you by order of Lieutenant-General Taylor, who is now at Citronelle, awaiting by appointment an interview with General Canby, with request that it be transmitted to the commander of U. S. forces at Montgomery:

GRENADA, May 4, 1865.

Memphis Bulletin, 30th instant [ultimo], received; contains following:

"WAR DEPARTMENT,

"Washington, April 28.

"Major-General DIX:

"A dispatch from General Grant dated at Raleigh, 10 p.m. April 26, states 'Johnston surrendered the forces in his command, embracing all from here to Chattahoochee, to General Sherman, on the basis agreed upon between Lee and myself for the Army of Northern Virginia.'

"E. M. STANTON,

"Secretary of War."

M. J. WRIGHT,

Brigadier-General.


HDQRS. 2nd DIV., 13TH ARMY CORPS, AND U. S. FORCES, Selma, Ala., May 4, 1865.

Permission is hereby given the Alabama and Tennessee Railroad Company to repair their road from Selma to Blue Mountain without being molested by the military authorities.

By order of Brigadier General C. C. Andrews:

GEORGE MONROE,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. 2nd DIV., 13TH ARMY CORPS, AND U. S. FORCES, Selma, Ala., May 4, 1865.

Permission is hereby granted to the Selma and Meridian Railroad Company to run its trains up to Valley Creek, near Selma, and to rebuild its bridges over said creek without molestation from the military authorities.

By order of Brigadier General C. C. Andrews:

GEORGE MONROE,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.


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