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regiment. He has always co-operated with and assisted me promptly and cheerfully in carrying out the orders transmitted from superior headquarters for the suppression of straggling and plundering in the command.Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. J. ALEXANDER,
Brevet Brigadier-General.
[Indorsement.]
HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Macon, Ga., June 27, 1865.Respectfully forwarded approved and strongly recommended.
Colonel Eggleston is a most worthy and gallant officer, fully entitled by distinguished services to this acknowledgment of his merit.
J. H. WILSON,
Brevet Major-General.
HDQRS. 2nd Brigadier, UPTON'S (4TH) DIV., CAV. CORPS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
East Macon, Ga., May 3, 1865.Major J. W. LATTA,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
MAJOR: I have the honor to request that First Lieutenant J. A. O. Yeoman, First Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry, may brevetted for gallantry in the charge at Montevallo, in the fight at Ebenezer Church, in the advance on Columbus when he followed the enemy so closely with two men as to prevent their burning the bridges. He also behaved with his usual conspicuous gallantry in the charge into Girard. Lieutenant Yeoman is an officer of education, a good disciplinarian, and has been of great value as the inspector-general of this brigade.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. J. ALEXANDER,
Brevet Brigadier-General.
[Indorsement.]
HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Macon, Ga., June 27, 1865.Respectfully forwarded approved and strongly recommended. There is no more gallant officer in service than Lieutenant Yeoman.
J. H. WILSON,
Brevet Major-General.
Numbers 37. Report of Colonel J. Morris Young, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, of operations March 22-April 16.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH IOWA CAVALRY,
Macon, Ga., April 24, 1865.GENERAL: In accordance with instructions from your headquarters I have the honor to report that during the campaign of the Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, commencing from Chickasaw
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