Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 1, vol 32, Part 3 (Forrest's Expedition)

page 140

HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH CORPS,

March 24, 1864.

Brigadier General W. T. WARD,

Commanding First Division:

GENERAL: A party of 10 men of the First Alabama Cavalry have been cut off and probably captured by a scouting party of the enemy not far beyond Johnson's Crook. You will send a picked force of 100 mounted men to scout in the vicinity of Johnson's Crook to ascertain the facts, and, if possible, relieve our scouts. They will take four days' forage in wagons, if necessary, and march as rapidly as possible till they reach Johnson's Crook. I want the greatest vigilance exercised and all possible information obtained. Put a perfectly reliable officer in charge.

By order of Major-General Howard:

F. W. GILBREGTH,

Lieutenant and Acting Aide-de-Camp.