Your dispatch received. Make all dispatch to reach Paducah to report to General Thomas at Nashville. Your services here will be short and the probabilities are you will return again to the Mississippi. Still, I will order you detached men to you. I will b
Read MoreFrom Brigadier General W. L. Elliott to Major General William T. Sherman – October 15, 1864
GENERAL: The operator reports Garrard’s DIVISION having left Adairsville one hour since. General Raum reports a ford five miles above. Will Garrard march for Buzzard Roost as ordered, or do you wish to change the destination of his DIVISION? He will reach
Read MoreFrom Brigadier General W. L. Elliott to Brigadier General Kenner Garrard – October 15, 1864
GENERAL: I send the inclosed order* from General Sherman. A guide will be sent to join you at McClure’s Ford. Five miles above there is another ford (Field’s Mill), which will expedite your crossing. The guide will show you the fords of the Connesauga. Yo
Read MoreFrom Brigadier General W. L. Elliott to Brigadier General Kenner Garrard – October 15, 1864
GENERAL: Since I sent you General Sherman’s order with directions as to crossing the Coosawattee and Connesanga, General S. says:
Read MoreFrom Brevet Brigadier General Green B. Raum to Brigadier General Kenner Garrard – October 15, 1864
I send Mr. Haws as a guide, who knows all the roads north of the Coosawattee River. He reports about 500 of the enemy on Holly Creek.
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