Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 1, vol XXX (30), Part 4 (Chickamauga)

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HEADQUARTERS POST OF STEVENSON, ALA., October 16, 1863.

Major General D. BUTTERFIELD,

Chief of Staff:

I have the honor to report that a sergeant of Captain Latham's company Alabama volunteers sends a dispatch from the vicinity of Larkinsville that a force of rebel cavalry, number unknown, are reported in Maynard's Cove, and that Roddey's command are said to be on the headwaters of Paint Rock Creek and about to cross the mountain toward the river. This report has been sent to Major-General Howard and communicated verbally to Major-General Hooker.

A sergeant from the mill near Larkinsville, who came in with prisoners, states that he was some miles west of that place yesterday, and that citizens generally believe that Roddey is on this side the river, but they locate him farther toward Huntsville.

I have the honor to remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant.

WM. P. LYON,

Colonel Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteers, Comdg. Post.