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ment to command of a brigade. He is a very valuable officer, and I desire to give him one of your bridges; which one shall I assign him to? Please answer by bearer.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. H. WILSON
Brevet Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION CAVALRYEight Miles East of Columbia, November 26, 1864
Major-General WILSON,
Commanding Cavalry Corps:Assign Colonel Harrison to the First Brigade Cavalry of my division. I have not organized my brigade yet, not being able to obtain date of commission of regimental commanders in the regiments ordered to report to me. If you can give me another good brigade commander shall consider it a favor. My pickets report a column moving on the Murfreesborough and Franklin pike five miles east of here; I have sent a party to ascertain.
Very truly, your obedient servant,
EDWARD HATCH,
Brigadier-General.
HEADQUARTERS SIXTH DIVISION CAVALRY,
November 26, 1864.Major E. B. BEAUMONT,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Cavalry Corps:
MAJOR: Scouts from Hamilton's Ford came in very late last night to Capron. All quiet. Citizens below reported the enemy within one mile and a half of the river, intending to cross last night; they also saw two soldiers of an Indiana regiment from Williamsport, who reported everything quiet there.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
R. W. JOHNSON,
Brigadier-General of Volunteers.
[Indorsement.]
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,
November 26, 1864-6.30 a.m.Respectfully forward for the information of the general commanding.
J. H. WILSON,
Brevet Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS SIXTH CAVALRY DIVISIONAt John Caldwell's House, November 26, 1864-2.20 p.m.
Major-General WILSON,
Commanding Cavalry Corps:
GENERAL; I have just received a dispatch from Captain Smith, Eighth Michigan Cavalry, who went out in command of a battalion last night to the crossing of Lewisburg and Nashville pike with Duck River; it is dated 7 a.m. He had just arrived at the ford where the Lewisburg and Nashville pike crosses; found the road very bad all the way, and thinks
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