Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 1, vol 32, Part 2 (Forrest's Expedition)

Page 229

SPECIAL ORDERS,

HDQRS. CAV. DIV., 16TH ARMY CORPS,

Numbers 30.

Memphis, Tenn., January 26, 1864.

I. Colonel J. K. Mizner will immediately cause the Third Michigan Cavalry to be mustered as veteran volunteers and move with them to Memphis, turning over those of the Third Michigan and Seventh Kansas who have not re-enlisted to the Second Iowa Cavalry at Memphis. The dismounted men of the First Alabama Cavalry will be sent by rail, with their camp and Garrison equipage, to Memphis; the mounted men will move by common road to the same point.

II. Colonel Edward Prince, commanding Seventh Illinois Cavalry, will, as soon as the infantry shall have left La Grange, send his train with camp and garrison equipage and sufficient escort by wagon road to Germantown, Tenn., and such surplus stores as cannot be carried in wagons will be sent by rail.

Colonel Prince will then remain with the effective force of his command, except guard for train, at La Grange until further orders.

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By order of Brigadier General B. H. Grierson:

S. L. WOODWARD,

Assistant Adjutant-General.