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745 Series I Volume XLIX-II Serial 104 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part II

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AUGUSTA, May 13, 1865.

Major-General WILSON:

Steamer is here and I will detain her until receive your orders. Please let me know at once, as all boats are ordered back.

E. L. MOLINEUX,

Brevet Brigadier-General.


HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Macon, Ga., May 13, 1865 - 10 a. m.

Brigadier General E. L. MOLINEUX,

Augusta, Ga.:

Detain the steamer and report the number of men she can carry.

J. H. WILSON,

Brevet Major-General.

AUGUSTA, May 13, 1865.

Major-General WILSON:

The steamer Standish has been ordered by me three miles below, over the bar, so as not to be detained by low water. She is ready and can take sixty men.

E. L. MOLINEUX,

Brevet Brigadier-General.

AUGUSTA, May 13, 1865.

Major-General WILSON:

Will the guard which arrives to-morrow at 6 p. m. go to Savannah or must I furnish one? Please state number of guards and also of the other party, so that rations and every preparation can be made.

E. L. MOLINEUX,

Brevet Brigadier-General.

AUGUSTA, May 13, 1865.

Major-General WILSON:

May I ask your kindness to give an order to General Molineux to forward under guard to Macon the effects of the Central Railroad Company and all other property captured with them, which was forwarded to Athens by General Palmer?

W. B. JOHNSTON.

[Indorsement.]

Approved.

E. L. MOLINEUX,

Brevet Brigadier-General.


HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Macon, Ga., May 13, 1865.

IVERSON L. HARRIS,

Judge of the Superior Court, Ocmulgee, Ga.:

SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, addressed to General Wayne and forwarded by him. In


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