Will you let General Elliott get a return of all the cavalry not of General Garrard’s proper command, including Generals McCook’s, Kilpatrick’s, and Stoneman’s, and Colonel Hamilton’s commands, and propose an organization that will make all efficient? Col
Read MoreFrom Major General George H. Thomas to Major General David S. Stanley – August 4, 1864
I wish you to have persons on your lookout stations all along the line to observe closely the movements of the enemy, and hold your troops ready to take advantage of any opportunity to move on their intrenchments. General Sherman thinks his movements this
Read MoreJournal of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph S. Fullerton, 4th Army Corps – August 4, 1864
8 a. m., received written instructions from Major-General Thomas to have persons on our lookout stations to-day to watch closely the movements of the enemy, and to hold the troops in readiness to take advantage of any opportunity to move on their i
Read MoreFrom Major General William T. Sherman to Major General Henry W. Halleck – August 3, 1864
In order to make my campaign collusive I should have a large cavalry force. We find great difficulty in procuring horses. I understand there are 2,000 at Saint Louis. Can I not have them? Recruits also should be sent to Nashville, and sent forward daily,
Read MoreFrom Major General David S. Stanley to Major General William T. Sherman – August 3, 1864
I have the honor to report, in answer to your inquiry, that I carried the picket-line on the whole corps front, excepting Gibson’s [brigade], of Wood’s division. Newton’s men went within 100 yards of the star fort. The rebels opened from at least twenty p
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