Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 1, vol 32, Part 2 (Forrest's Expedition)

Page 255-256

PULASKI, TENN., January 29, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

The rebel conscription is driving to our lines a large number of Union men, who furnish substitutes, and men who have always stood by us and kept out of the rebel army by taking to the mountains. They desire to go into our service, and many prominent men among them think they can raise a regiment. Can you authorize me to enlist them, and have a regiment, to be known as the Second Alabama Cavalry? I raised and officered the First Alabama Cavalry at Corinth, now 800 strong, and I have no doubt I can raise another. These men flock to my lines this fact.

G. M. DODGE,

Brigadier-General.