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

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missary stores and quartermaster's supplies. The animals and wagons of the Forty-seventh and Fiftieth will be sent to Mobile to embark on other boats there. The Fifty-first will go on the Terascon, the First Brigade on the White Cloud, the Seventy-third on the General Banks, the Seventy-sixth on the James Battle, the Sixty-eighth on the Saint Charles. Regimental commanders will apply to Major Purnell, assistaant quartermaster, for additional teams to transport property to Mobile. Major Purnell will give directions concerning the loading of the teams. Transportation will not be allowed for worthless and picket-up furniture.

By order of Brigadier General J. P. Hawkins:

SAML. B. FERGUSON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

COLUMBUS, MISS., June 10, 1865.

Major ALFRED FREDBERG,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Governor Clark was delivered over yesterday at Macon, Miss., to an officer and special guard sent for that purpose, they leaving for Mobile with him same day.

G. M. L. JOHNSON,

Colonel, Commanding.


HDQRS. DISTRICT OF KEY WEST AND TORTUGAS,
Key West, Fla., June 10, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the Gulf:

COLONEL: I have the honor to inclose for your information copy of a communication received from Major E. C. Weeks, commanding at Cedar Keys. The surrender of the forces spoken of will comprise all armed bodies of rebels on the west coast of Florida.

I am, colonel, very respectfully,

JOHN NEWTON,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

[Inclosure.]


HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,
Cedar Keys, Fla., May 30, 1865.

Captain J. S. RANSOM,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General,

Hdqrs. Dist. of Key West and Tortugas, Key West:

SIR: I have the honor to report, for the information of the general commanding, that on the 27th instant Captain Jerrett, with Company A, Second Florida Cavalry, entered Tampaa to occupy it. By order of Brigadier-General Newton I have sent commissioners to accept surrender of the Confederate forces in this vicinity. At Bronson, June 5, for Levy and adjoining counties; at Bay Port, June 5, for Mandlin's [Munnerlyn's] battalion; at Tampa, June 8, for the rebel forces south of Brooksville.

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Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

EDMUND C. WEEKS,

Major Second Florida Cavalry, Commanding.


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