Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 1, vol 39, Part 3 (Allatoona)

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SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF THE MISS., Numbers 90.

In the Field, Rome, Ga., October 12, 1864.

Orders for to-morrow, October 13, will be as follows:

I. General Corse will dispatch his DIVISION and the brigade of the Fifteenth corps attached to his garrison and the First Alabama Cavalry down the Coosa River on its east bank toward Coosaville to develop the force guarding the bridge by which the enemy crossed. He will send one battery with the expedition and equip the whole party light.

II. General Elliott will at the same time dispatch down the WEST bank of the Coosa a DIVISION of cavalry for the same purpose, viz, to develop the force guarding the bridge by which the enemy crossed.

III. All the armies will be held ready to move at a moment's warning.

By order of Major General W. T. Sherman:

L. M. DAYTON,

Aide-de-Camp.