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HDQRS. DEPARTMENT AND ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
Savannah, Ga., January 9, 1865.
Major General F. P. BLAIR,
Commanding Seventeenth Army Corps:
GENERAL: I have directed the Ninth Illinois to remain here for the present and drive some cattle that belong to us, in company with the Left Wing. I find that General Sherman intends to give the First Alabama to Kilpatrick and possibly the Ninth Illinois. I have resisted the latter transfer.
Respectfully,
O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General.