Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 1, vol 31, Part 3 (Knoxville and Lookout Mountain)

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,

Chattanooga, December 9, 1863.

Brigadier General GEORGE CROOK,

Huntsville, Ala.,:

You will arrest William McDowell, a violent rebel, and hold him as a hostage for Christopher Sheets, a Union man, arrested for his loyalty to the United States Government and now confined by the rebels in a loathsome jail in Southern Alabama. You will treat Mr. McDowell in the same manner that the rebels treat Mr. Sheets,and notify the commander of the nearest rebel force that such action has been taken.

By command of Major-General Thomas:

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.