OPERATIONS IN Kentucky, SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, AND NORTH Georgia (THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN EXCEPTED).

May 1 - November 13, 1864.

PART I.

SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS. *

May 2, 1864. -Skirmish at Bolivar, Tenn. +

2-12, 1864. -Scout in Hickman and Maury Counties, Tenn.

4-21, 1864. -Expedition from Vicksburg to Yazoo City, Miss.,with skirmishes at Benton (7th and 9th), at Luce's Plantation (13th), and at other points.

5, 1864. -Scout in Meade and Breckinridge Counties, Ky.

6, 1864. -Skirmish near Morganfield, Ky.

7-8, 1864. -Skirmishes near Florence (7th) and at Decatur (8th), Ala.

9, 1864. -Skirmish near Pound Gap, Ky.

Major General Stephen D. Lee, C. S. Army, assumes command of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana.

9-13, 1864. -Expedition from Louisiana to Rock House Creek, Ky.

10, 1864. -Affair with guerrillas at Winchester, Tenn.

12, 1864. -Skirmish at Jackson's Ferry (Hallowell's Landing), Ala.

13, 1864. -Skirmish at Pulaski, Tenn.

15, 1864. -Skirmish at center Star, Ala.

16, 1864. -Skirmish at Pond Creek, Pike County, Ky.

18, 1864. -Skirmish at Fletcher's Ferry, Ala.

Skirmish in Pike County, Ky.

Skirmish at Wolf River, Ky.

19, 1864. -Skirmish at Dandridge, Tenn.

20, 1864. -Skirmish near Mayfield, Ky.

Skirmish at Greenville, Miss.

22, 1864. -Skirmish near Mount Pleasant, Miss.

24, 1864. -Skirmish near Nashville, Tenn.

Skirmish at Holly Springs, Miss.

25, 1864. -Skirmish near Cripple Creek, Woodbury Pike, Tenn.

27, 1864. -Skirmish at Greenville, Miss.

29, 1864. -Skirmish a Yazoo River, Miss.

Guerrilla depredations at Winchester, Tenn.

30, 1864. -Skirmish at Greenville, Tenn.

31-June 20, 1864. -Morgan's raid into Kentucky.

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*Of some of the minor conflicts noted in the Summary no circumstantial reports.

+See Vol. XXXII, Part I, p. 693.

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