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CAVALRY CORPS.

Major General STEPHEN D. LEE.

JACKSON'S DIVISION.

Brigadier General WILLIAM H. JACKSON.

First Brigade.

Colonel PETER B. STARKE.

1st Mississippi, Colonel R. A. Pinson.

28th Mississippi, Colonel Peter B. Starke.

Ballentine's (Mississippi) Regiment, Colonel John G. Ballentine.

Escort (Louisiana) Company, Captain Junius Y. Webb.

Georgia Battery, Captain Edward Croft.

Second Brigade.

Colonel LAWRENCE S. ROSS.

1st Texas Legion, Colonel E. R. Hawkins.

3rd Texas, Colonel Hinchie P. Mabry.

6th Texas, Colonel Jack Wharton.

9th Texas, Colonel Dud. W. Jones.

Escort (Texas) Company, Lieutenant Rush L. Elkin.

Missouri Battery, Captain Houston King.

Adams' Brigade.

Brigadier General WIRT ADAMS.

11th Arkansas Mounted Infantry, Colonel John Griffith.

14th Confederate, Captain Josephus R. Quinn.

9th Louisiana, Captain E. A. Scott.

4th (2nd) Mississippi, Major J. L. Harris.

4th Mississippi, Major Thomas R. Stockdale.

Wood's (Mississippi) Regiment, Colonel Robert C. Wood, jr.

9th Tennessee Battalion, Major James H. Akin.

Mississippi Battery, Captain Calvit Roberts.

Ferguson's Brigade.

Brigadier General SAMUEL W. FERGUSON.

2nd Alabama, Colonel R. G. Earle.

56th Alabama, Colonel William Boyles.

12th Mississippi, Colonel W. M. Inge.

2nd Tennessee (Barteau's regiment), Lieutenant Colonel George H. Morton.

South Carolina Battery, Captain John Waties.

CHALMERS' COMMAND.

Brigadier General JAMES R. CHALMERS.

First Brigade.

2nd Arkansas, Colonel W. F. Slemons.

3rd Mississippi (State), Colonel John McGuirk.

5th Mississippi, Colonel James Z. George.

7th Tennessee, Colonel William L. Duckworth.

Mississippi Battery, Captain J. M. McLendon.

Second Brigade.

Colonel ROBERT McCULLOCH.

1st Mississippi Partisan Rangers, Lieutenant Colonel L. B. Hovis.

18th Mississippi Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander H. Chalmers.

19th Mississippi Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel William L. Duff.

Will's Texas Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Leonidas Willis.

2nd Missouri Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel R. A. McCulloch.

Mississippi Battery, Lieutenant H. C. Holt.

General Polk's escort (Louisiana company), Captain Leeds Greenleaf.

General Lee's escort (Georgia company), Captain Thomas M. Nelson.

DALTON, March 10, 1864.

Lieutenant-General POLK,

Demopolis:

Information of Sherman's movements is important to me. You will oblige me greatly by giving it as it comes to you.

J. E. JOHNSTON.


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