835 Series I Volume XLIII-II Serial 91 - Shenandoah Valley Campaign Part II
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FAIRFAX COURT-HOUSE, December 28, 1864. (Received 5.40 p. m.)
Lieutenant Colonel J. H. TAYLOR,
Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General:
I have the honor to report all quiet on the line between Fairfax Court-House and Vienna. No report has been received by me from Colonel Gansevoort, commanding at Prospect Hill.
W. GAMBLE,
Colonel, Commanding Brigade.
HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, December 28, 1864.General STEVENSON:
Can cavalry cross the Shenandoah on your pontoon bridge and go around the point of the mountain to Lovettsville? Please answer at once.
P . H. SHERIDAN,
Major-General.HARPER'S FERRY, December 28, 1864.
Major-General SHERIDAN:
Pontoon bridge all right. Cavalry can go around point. Good road.
Respectfully,
JNO. D. STEVENSON,
Brigadier-General.
HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, December 28, 1864.General STEVENSON:
If I were to put a division of 3,000 cavalry at or near Lovettsville, in Loundoun County, how long could it be supported from the forage in that county? Answer.
P. H. SHERIDAN,
Major-General, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS, Harper's Ferry, December 28, 1864.Major-General SHERIDAN:
I think from all that I can learn a division of 2,500 cavalry could subsist abundantly near Lovettsville for the winter. I had and estimate made of the hay and corn that could be gotten-which was 1, 5000 tons of hay and 150,000 bushels of corn.
Respectfully,
JNO. D. STEVENSON,
Brigadier-General.
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