Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 1, vol 52, Part 1 (Supplements)

page 649

SPECIAL ORDERS,

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,

MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 4.

Rome, Ga., October 30, 1864.

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3. The First Alabama Cavalry, Colonel Spencer commanding, is assigned to duty with the army of the Department of the Tennessee. Colonel Spencer will report to Major General O. O. Howard for orders.

4. Colonel Israel Garrard will fully equip and mount two regiments upon the serviceable horses of his command, and order their commanding officers to report by letter to Brigadier-General Kilpatrick for assignment in the Third Cavalry Division. Colonel Garrard will then proceed to Nashville with his regiment and all the dismounted men of his division found along the route.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.