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1067 Series I Volume XLV-I Serial 93 - Franklin - Nashville Part I

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The officer will report to Major-General Schofield for orders. He will be instructed to run off all the cavalry which will be found marching down the pike from Nashville to Columbia toward Rally Hill, informing them of the movement of the corps to-day in that direction. Your wagons will move in rear of Croxton's, and will remain with his, except your ammunition wagons and ambulances and headquarters wagons, which you may take with you.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. T. WELLS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS SIXTH DIVISION CAVALRY,
Near Columbia, Tenn., November 26, 1864.

Colonel H. CAPRON,

Commanding Brigade:

COLONEL; Since seeing Captain Boynton, acting assistant adjutant-general on your staff, orders have been received for the corps to move. You will get your command in readiness to march as soon as possible, and will move it to the crossing of the Lewisburg and Nashville pike with Duck River, find the whereabouts of the battalion sent out there last night, and dispatch a strong party in support of it. You may start as soon as you get ready to move, but if you find General Hatch's division on the road, you must wait for him to pass, as his division has the head of the column. The corps is ordered to go into camp five or six miles from this place, moving out by the first road leading eastward from the Columbia and Nashville pike. You will thus know the general locality of the command. Instruct the patrols on the river south of this of your destination and destination of the Cavalry Corps.

This by order of Brigadier-General Johnson:

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. T. WELLS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS SIXTH DIVISION CAVALRY,
November 26, 1864.

Colonel H. CAPRON,

Commanding Brigade Cavalry:

COLONEL: General Johnson desires you to move camp and train to the right and rear of General Croxton's brigade. Put your wagons behind cover it you can. Send a small patrol to rout all the nigglers who may be lurking behind and near the vicinity of their late camp, and make them move off on the pike.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. T. WELLS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS SIXTH DIVISION CAVALRY,
John S. Caldwell's House, November 26, 1864.

Colonel CAPRON,

Commanding Brigade:

COLONEL: In accordance with instructions from Major-General Wilson, I have ordered all of the wagons belonging to your brigade, except your headquarters wagon, back to the Columbia and Nashville pike,in


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