Read the official orders, communications and reports that were issued regarding Garrard’s cavalry, Minty’s brigade, and the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Online here are the pertinent records found in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 38. Click the Archives listing at right to select a Month, or use the Search Tags or Search box to find a particular subject.
Reports of Colonel Abram O. Miller, Seventy-second Indiana Mounted Infantry – July 13, 1864
CAPTAIN: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by the brigade under my command in the operations of the division on the 9th of June, near Big
read moreFrom Colonel Abram O. Miller to Captain Robert P. Kennedy – July 13, 1864
The general commanding directed that I should move camp at 3 p. m. across Noonday Creek, following the First Brigade, under command of Colonel Minty. Before the ambulance train of that brigade had crossed the creek the advance became engaged with the enem
read moreFrom Major General William T. Sherman to Major General George H. Thomas – July 13, 1864
SHERMAN’S HEADQUARTERS,July 13, 1864.Major-General THOMAS:Telegraph office is now opened at Roswell.W. T. SHERMAN,Major-General.
read moreFrom Major General William T. Sherman to Major General James B. McPherson – July 12, 1864
GENERAL: I have received your dispatches of last night. You may put in motion at once the Fifteenth Corps and trains for Roswell, leaving General Blair with such artillery and wagons as he may need to await the return of General Stoneman, and to make in t
read moreFrom Major General William T. Sherman to Lieutenant General U.S. Grant – July 12, 1864
DEAR GENERAL: I have written you but once since the opening of the campaign, but I report by telegraph to Halleck daily, and he furnishes you copy. My progress was slower than I calculated, from two chief causes, an uninterrupted rain from June 2 to about
read moreReports of Colonel Eli Long, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, commanding Second Brigade – July 12, 1864
CAPTAIN: Please find annexed a report of the operations of the Second Brigade, Second Cavalry Division, since leaving Decatur, Ala., on the 26th of May and up to the 1st of the present month, which I have the honor to forward for the information of the br
read moreFrom Major General William T. Sherman to Brigadier General Kenner Garrard – July 11, 1864
Certainly, by all means save the bridge above Roswell, and get me information of the lay of the country from it toward Stone Mountain.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General, Commanding.
ROSWELL, July 11, 1864-8 p. m.
Major-General SHERMAN:
I have no
From Brigadier General John H. Kelly to Major E. S. Burford – July 10, 1864
Assistant Adjutant-General:
MAJOR: I have the honor to inform you that I have just arrived at this point with Dibrell’s brigade. Colonel Hannon reports all quiet in his front; he also reports the force which crossed at McAfee’s Bridge to have withdrawn
From Major General William T. Sherman to Major General Grenville M. Dodge – July 10, 1864
I have been out all day; am just back. Have received General Garrard’s and your dispatches. I design that General McPherson’s whole army shall come to that flank, and you are to prepare the way. General newton will stay with you till you feel all sate, wh
read moreFrom Brigadier General Kenner Garrard to Major General William T. Sherman – July 10, 1864
Your dispatch in regard to the reported force near Acworth has just been received. Communications, except by telegraph to Marietta, come very late; those by telegraph and my courier line in two hours. I will make full investigation to-day in regard to wha
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