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1125 Series I Volume XLVII-I Serial 98 - Columbia Part I

Page 1125 Chapter LIX] THE CAMPAIGN OF THE CAROLINAS. .

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, March 9, 18657 p. m. MAJOR: General Dibrell has not yet arrived at this point. He has been delayed by some wagons of General Butlers command in his front. if possible will you please direct me where I can encamp my command ~ I will direct General Dibrell to stop at Blues. Respectfully, major, your obedient servant, J. WHEELER, Maj. H. B. MCCLELLAN. Major-General. This dispatch is written at the point you left me. HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, March 11, 1865. General Allen reports the enemy advancing in his front. Respectfully, major, your obedient servant, J. WHEELER, Major-General. Maj. H. B. MCCLELLAN, Assistant Adjutant- General. HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, March 13, 18653.45 p. m. MAJOR: One officer has just arrived from beyond Cape Fear River. He states that the enemy had advanced up the river and was in six miles of McNeills Ferry this morning when he left. It was a cavalry force, and he thinks but small. Respectfully, major, your obedient servant, J. WHEELER, Major- General. Maj. H. B. MCCLELLAN, Assistant Adjutant- General. HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, March 13, 18657.20 p. m. MAJOR: I have the honor to report that a scout that was at Elliotts Ferry at 11 oclock reports no infantry seen on the river road at that hour. The same scout started back at 1 oclock; struck a force of cavalry, about twenty-five in number, about four miles this side of Elliotts Ferry. This force crossed the river at Kings Ferry. There is a picket of fifty men now on the river road about five miles from its intersection with the plank road. Respectfully, major, your obedient servant, J. WHEELER, Major- General. Maj. H. B. MCCLELLAN, Assistant Adjutant- General.


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