Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 1, vol 44, Part 1 (Savannah)

page 566

HEADQUARTERS FIRST ALABAMA CAVALRY,

November 28, 1864.

Major General F. P. BLAIR,

Commanding Seventeenth Army Corps:

GENERAL: I have the honor to report that the headquarters of the Twentieth Corps is to-night at Station Numbers 11, two miles and a half from my camp, and that the Fifteenth Corps is camped about the same distance on my right. One of my flanking companies to-night found about 10,000 bushels of corn, cribbed and partly shelled, about a mile in front of your headquarters and a mile to the left of the road. I also have the honor, General, to send you herewith Savannah papers of the 23rd and 24th instant.

I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,

GEO. E. SPENCER,

Colonel, Commanding.