280 Series I Volume XLV-II Serial 94 - Franklin - Nashville Part II
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NASHVILLE, December 19, 1864.
Brigadier-General MEAGHER:
You will order the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel Palmer, the Twenty-ninth Indiana and Eighteenth U. S. Colored Infantry, to report to Colonel Mackay at once, for steam-boat transportation to Decatur. Send all of the men of the eighteenth [Ohio] and Sixty-eighth Indiana now in Chattanooga. You will relieve the sixty-eighth New York and order them to march to Stevenson at once, where I will give them orders. You will send by boat 300 bodes of ammunition, caliber 58, and 1,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, one-half shell and one-half canister, for light 12's, to Decatur by boat. Please answer.
JAS. B. STEEDMAN,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Chattanooga, December 19, 1864.Colonel WILLIAM J. PALMER,
Commanding Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Wauhatchie:The news I telegraphed you yesterday is more than confirmed. Ned Johnson's division, including himself, captured, also Bate's division; Stevenson's division broken up. The enemy completely routed and in full retreat down the Columbia pike.
SOUTHARD HOFFMAN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
WAUHATCHIE, December 19, 1864.
Captain HENRY A. FORD,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:
Please direct the steam-boat to take my regiment on at Kelley's Ferry, three miles from here. It will save half a day's river transportation rounding the Suck from Chattanooga. Can any wagons be taken along? I have twelve days' forage and rations here. Can it be taken along and loaded at Kelley's Ferry? It will take five boats to carry my effective force. Please telegraph when they will be at Kelley's Ferry.
WM. J. PALMER,
Colonel Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
WAUHATCHIE, December 19, 1864.
Captain FORD,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:
Please order up two companies of my regiment left at Dalton, under Captain William F. Colton. They should start at daylight to-morrow, in order to accompany me on this expedition. Please answer.
WM. J. PALMER,
Colonel Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
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