Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 1, vol 49, Part 2 (Mobile Bay Campaign)

Page 993

PULASKI, June 14, 1865.

Brigadier General WILLIAM D. WHIPPLE, Chief of Staff:

Cannot the Sixth Illinois Cavalry, which is now at Courtland, Ala., under General Granger, be ordered back? They were sent there under your telegraphic orders to assist Granger in keeping his district in order until the First Alabama Cavalry should arrive, which I understand has been there some ten days. I can get no word from General Granger about them. It is quite essential that they should be here to accomplish muster out and consolidation.

R. W. JOHNSON,

Brevet Major-General.