1019 Series I Volume XLV-I Serial 93 - Franklin - Nashville Part I
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ter's Ford, at which both Wheeler and Forrest have formerly crossed the Duck River. The banks are such at that point, he says, that a pontoon bridge could be ready laid.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
THOS. H. RUGER,
Brigadier-General of Volunteers.
[First indorsement.]
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Columbia, November 24, 1864.Respectfully referred to Brevet Major-General Wilson, with the request that he send a portion of his cavalry now on the other side of the river to investigate this ford, and, if it is found practicable, leave a force to guard it.
By order:
WM. M. WHERRY,
Major and Aide-de-Camp.
[Second indorsement.]
HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Columbia, November 24, 1864.Respectfully referred to Brigadier-General Johnson, who will detach a small force to watch the ford closely.
By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:
JOHN N. ANDREWS,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
[Third indorsement.]
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY DIVISION,
Near Columbia, Tenn., November 24, 1864.Respectfully referred to Colonel Capron, commanding brigade, who will send fifty men, in charge of a good officer, to find Hamilton's Ford, examine and report its condition, and to remain there, watching the ford closely and disputing its passage by all bodies of the enemy.
By order of Brigadier-General Johnson:
E. T. WELLS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Columbia, Tenn., November 24, 1864.Brigadier-General RUGER,
Commanding Second Division:
GENERAL: I am directed by the commanding general to inform you that General Cox, who is here, thinks that upon viewing his and your lines he can hold substantially to the pike without weakening his line too much, at any rate for a time; and the general commanding desires you to put the two regiments of your command thus relieved on the right of the turnpike and intrench them strongly, extending the line of entrenchments from the pike clear around.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
WM. M. WHERRY,
Major and Aide-de-Camp.
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