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

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HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Macon, Ga., May 14, 1865-9 a. m.

Brevet Brigadier-General MOLINEUX,
Augusta, Ga.:

Please send a messenger to notify General Palmer of our success, so that he may gather up his command and put a stop to impressments.

J. H. WILSON,

Brevet Major-General.

AUGUSTA, May 14, 1865.

Major General J. H. WILSON:

The party arrived about 7 p. m. and have safely passed through the city, all quiet, under a strong guard. They are now near the boat below the bar. Will telegraph in the morning.

E. L. MOLINEUX,

Brevet Brigadier-General.


HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Macon, Ga., May 14, 1865.

Colonel J. G. VAIL,
Commanding Post, Macon, Ga.:

COLONEL: The brevet major-general commanding directs that you have the C. S. cotton accounted for by Mr. Adam Griffin brought to Macon as soon as possible. The chief quartermaster of the corps will give the necessary orders for transportation.

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

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 78.
Macon, Ga., May 14, 1865.

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II. Captain J. C. Lamson, Seventeenth Indiana (mounted) Infantry, will proceed to Columbus, Ga., for the purpose of taking charge and forwarding to Macon all quartermaster's, commissary, and other Confederate stores, and is authorized to use the steam-boats on the Chattahoochee for that purpose. Captain Lamson will also parole all C. S. and States soldiers at Columbus and vicinity.

III. The commanding officer of the troops of the Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, at Cuthbert Station, will furnish Captain Lamson with 200 men to assist him in the discharge of the duties assigned him.

IV. Lieutenant Sutton, Seventeenth Indiana (mounted) Infantry, will report to Captain Lamson with his detachment for duty.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.


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