CAPTAIN: I send to the major-general commanding a citizen who has lived in this section of country and can give good information concerning the roads and country south of this. Last night
Read MoreReport of Lieutenant Colonel Josiah B. Park, Fourth Michigan Cavalry – May 21, 1864
SIR: I have the honor to report that, in compliance with verbal order of the colonel commanding brigade, I reported to General Garrard, with Companies L, F. M, K, E, H, and B, numbering 284 men and 17 officers, at Woodland, about seven miles northwest of
Read MoreFrom Brigadier General Kenner Garrard to Major General William T. Sherman – May 20, 1864
GENERAL: The force I sent across the river at this point proceeded without opposition to the mill near the mouth of the Euharlee, crossed that stream on a good bridge, and about half a mile further found a good bridge over the Etowah. They encountered no
Read MoreFrom Major General James B. McPherson to Brigadier General Kenner Garrard – May 19, 1864
GENERAL: Send a detachment of 100 men to Rome and to hunt up Brigadier-General Davis division. If Rome is in our possession or evacuated scour the country west of Barnsley Creek as far as the Oostanaula for prisone
Read MoreFrom R. W. Johnson to Major General John M. Palmer – May 19, 1864
GENERAL: I arrived at the bridge and found General Garrard here and no appearance of any cavalry in the country. I posted the troops, and requested Garrard to use his cavalry to examine another ford or bridge reported near here. He is now absent. Rebel tr
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