Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 2, vol 5, Part 1 (Prisoners of War)

pages 969

WAR DEPARTMENT, Richmond, Va., June 8, 1863.

His Excellency JOHN GILL SHORTER, Governor of Alabama.

SIR: The official reports of General Forrest relative to the operations in Alabama and Georgia resulting in the capture of a body of the cavalry of the enemy near Rome, Ga., have been received. It does not appear from these reports that any slaves were associated as soldiers with the enemy's troops and if there were any Alabamians enlisted among them they made their escape before the capture. The probability is that Your Excellency has been misinformed on the subject.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.