Major-General Blair has received a dispatch from General Sherman saying that your command would accompany this corps. It will be necessary for you to be at Decatur Thursday next. Answer.
A. J. ALEXANDER,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Assistant Adjutan
Report 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 Captain L. M. Dayton – May 21, 1864
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 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
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