Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 1, vol XXX (30), Part 4 (Chickamauga)

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HEADQUARTERS SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS,

Memphis, Tenn., October 15, 1863.

Major-General SHERMAN,

Corinth, Miss.:

You can take the Fifth Ohio Cavalry, or any other cavalry at or near Corinth except Spencer's (Alabama) cavalry, which is designed for specific service. I do not know what cavalry is at Corinth now. Richardson's battery can go with you. Hatch has driven Chalmers across the Tallahatchie at Wyatt, and if Sweeny had moved as he was expected to, the whole force would have been cut off. General Dodge will be out in the morning to Corinth.

S. A. HURLBUT,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS,

Corinth, October 15, 1863.

General HURLBUT:

I will detain the Alabama regiment only till I hear that Hatch is on his way back. Send me earliest possible intelligence of his movement. I have your dispatches and his from Wyatt. I hear nothing from Sweeny.

W. T. SHERMAN,

Major-General.