HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH,
Chattanooga, November 17, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE A. POTEET,

115th Illinois, Tilton:

You and your command will remain with the working party until further orders.

By command of Major-General Steedman:

S. B. MOE,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CAMP TWO MILES NORTH OF RESACA, November 17, 1864.

Major-General STEEDMAN:

Rebels reported in force nine miles and a half south of Fite's Ferry. Enemy's cavalry are now in Resaca. Are there any cavalry along road that you could send me fifty?

GEO. A. POTEET,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH,
Chattanooga, November 17, 1864.

Colonel POTEET,

Resaca:

Keep a vigilant lookout in front and on your flanks. How near Tilton will you be to-night?

By command of Major-General Steedman:

S. B. MOE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS 115TH ILLINOIS,
Tilton, November 17, 1864.

Major S. B. MOE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

SIR: I arrived here this evening. The rail is taken up within about four miles of this point.

GEO. A. POTEET,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,

Numbers 12.
Nashville, Tenn., November 17, 1864.

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II. Colonel William B. Sipes, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, as soon as received from duty at Columbia, Tenn., will, without delay, proceed to Louisville, Ky., and report to his division commander with his own regiment and all other men of the division, except the few enlisted men needed to assist the quartermaster and commissary in disposing of their business.

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