1157 Series I Volume XLV-I Serial 93 - Franklin - Nashville Part I
| Page 1157 | Chapter LVII. CORRESPONDENCE,ETC. - UNION. |
NASHVILLE, November 29, 1864.
Major-General MILROY,
Tullahoma:
The 500 cattle at Tullahoma will be driven to Elk River bridge, where they will be turned over to the garrison at that post. They must start very early in the morning of to-morrow, so as to get through in good time. Furnish a guard from your cavalry, which can return and join you at Murfreesborough.
GEO. H. THOMAS,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.
MURFREESBOROUGH, November 29, 1864-7.50 p.m.
Major General R. H. MILROY,
Tullahoma:
Two trains of cars will reach you to-night; place all your stores upon them, except three days' rations for your command; they go to Chattanooga. Load them promptly, and be prepared when they move off to march at once to this place by way of Shelbyville; march promptly, but in good order. Have a strong rear guard, under an efficient officer who will protect the rear and allow no straggling or depredations. A large force of rebel cavalry has crossed Duck River above Columbia, and may be expected in this direction by daylight day after to-morrow; possibly to-morrow. I will telegraph you as to the garrison at Elk River before morning.
LOVELL H. ROUSSEAU,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers.
TULLAHOMA, November 29, 1864.
Major-General ROUSSEAU:
I have no horses or mules for moving artillery. I have ten guns here; four of them are heavy siege guns. Heavy artillery firing reported in a northwest direction this evening, from thirty to fifty miles distant.
R. H. MILROY,
Major-General.
MURFREESBOROUGH, November 29, 1864-9.30 p.m.
Major-General MILROY,
Tullahoma:
Your dispatch received. I will inform you touching the matters inquired of as soon as I can hear from General Thomas; I have already telegraphed him. How many sick have you, and how many contrabands have you that cannot march with you? Can your sick go on an ordinary train of cars? If so, they might go to Chattanooga with two trains. Can you not use the horses of the Fifth Tennessee Cavalry, keeping equipments on, to draw your six-gun battery? If so, do it. I have telegraphed General Thomas to send a train there to bring off your artillery and camp equipage, but it may not come.
LOVELL H. ROUSSEAU,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers.
| Page 1157 | Chapter LVII. CORRESPONDENCE,ETC. - UNION. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments