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4 Series I Volume XLIX-I Serial 103 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part I

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March 25, 1865.-Skirmish at Brawley Forks, Tenn.

Skirmish near Gasgown, Ky.

26, 1865.-Skirmish in Bath County, Ky.

28, 1865.-Skirmish at Germantown, Tenn.

29, 1865.-Skirmish at Blackwater, River, Ky.

31, 1865.-Skirmish at Magnolia, Tenn.

April 1, 1865.-Skirmish at White Oak Creek, Tenn.

1-4, 1864.-Expedition from Dalton to Spring Place and the Coosawattee River, Ga., with skirmish.

3, 1865.-Skirmish at Mount Pleasant, Tenn.

3-4, 1865.-Scout from Huntsville to near Vienna, Ala.

5-7, 1865.-Scout from Huntsville to New Market, Mayesville, etc. Ala.

13, 1865.-Major General Frederick Steele, U. S. Army, assigned to command all the troops and posts on the east side of Mobile Bay, with the exception of the troops belonging to the Sixteenth Army Corps.

13-16, 1865.-Scouts about Lexington, Ky.

14, 1865.-Skirmish at Mount Pleasant, Tenn.

18, 1865.-Skirmish near Taylor, Ky.

Skirmish near Germantown, Tenn.

22, 1965.-Skirmish at Buzzard Roost, Ga.

23-26, 1865.-Scout from Pulaski, Tenn., to Rogersville, Ala.

27, 1865.-Brigadier General James C. Veatch, U. S. Army, assigned to command the Post and District of Mobile.

29, 1865.-Skirmish in Lyon County, Ky.

May 1, 1865.-Major General Gouverner K. Warren, U. S. Army, ordered to relieve Major General Napoleon J. T. Dana, U. S. Army, in command of the Department of Mississippi.

2, 1865.-Bvt. Major General John E. Smith, U. S. Army, assigned to command the District of West Tennessee, vice Burbridge, relieved.

1-10, 1865.-Pursuit and capture of Jefferson Davis.

3-6, 1865.-Expedition from Rodney to Port Gibson, Miss., with skirmishes.

5, 1865.-Skirmish at Summerville, Ga.

5-13, 1865.-Expedition from Pulaski, Tenn., to New Market, Ala.

25, 1865.-Explosion of ordnance depot of Mobile, Ala.

29, 1865.-Bvt. Major General John E. Smith, U. S. Army, assumes command of the District of West Tennessee.

30, 1865.-The Fourth Army Corps ordered from Department of the Cumberland to the Military division of the Southwest.

31-June 6, 1865.-Expedition from Barrancas to Apalachicola, Fla.

June 5, 1865.-The veteran portion of Fourth Army Corps ordered to proceed from the Department of the Cumberland to New Orleans, La.

9, 1865.-Explosion of ordnance building at Chattanooga, Tenn.

20, 1865.-Major General George H. Thomas, U. S. Army, assume command of the Military Division of the Tennessee.

27, 1865.-Major General George H. Thomas assigned to the command of the Military Division of the Tennessee; Major General Edward O. C. Ord, to the Department of the Ohio; Major General George Stoneman, to the Department of Tennessee; Major General John M. Palmer, to the Department of Kentucky; Major General James B. Steedman, to the Department of Georgia, and Major General Charles R. Woods, to the Department of Alabama.


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