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HEADQUARTERS HOOD'S CORPS,
May 14, 1864.

Major-General WHEELER,

Commanding Cavalry:

GENERAL: Lieutenant-General Hood requests that you cross the river as rapidly as possible and let him know what is on his right flank, also to keep him advised from time to time. General Hood can be found to the rear and right of his line.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAS. HAMILTON,

Major and Aide-de-Camp.

MAY 14, 1864.

General Hood will move forward in a few movements.

HAMILTON,

Aide-de-Camp.

ROME, May 14, 1864.

Major WEST,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

General French's advance was only three miles from Blue Mountain last night. They will not be here before Monday night or Tuesday morning.

WEST STEEVER,

Acting Assistant Inspector-General.

RESACA, GA., May 14, 1864.

Brigadier-General JACKSON,

Rome, Ga.:

The lieutenant-general commanding directs that you assume command of Armstrong's, Ferguson's, and Ross' cavalry brigades and keep yourself in readiness for orders. Forage will be sent from here. In meanwhile get all you can around Rome, and communicate with Major Peters, chief quartermaster at Selma, for forage, and Major Frencis, commissary of subsistence, at Blue Mountain, for subsistence.

D. WEST,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

RESACA, GA., May 14, 1864-midnight.

Brigadier-General JACKSON,

Rome, Ga.:

Your written orders of to-day are revoked. You will move the whole of your division on Calhoun at once. Ferguson must start to-night. Send your trains to Kingston. This movements requires the utmost dispatch.

L. POLK,

Lieutenant-General.

ROME, May 14, 1864.

Major DOUGLAS WEST,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

General Sears' brigade left Blue Mountain yesterday morning.

WEST STEEVER.


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