Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 1, vol 38, Part 4 (The Atlanta Campaign)

page 417

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,

HEADQUARTERS LEFT WING, SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Numbers 14.

Near Dallas, Ga., June 5, 1864.

I. The troops of this command will move to-day as follows:

First Brigadier-General Sweeny, commanding Second Division, will follow the division of the Fifteenth Army Corps that takes the new-cut road leading to Acworth.

Second. Brigadier-General Fuller's brigade, of Fourth Division, will follow General Sweeny's division.

Third. Colonel Sprague's brigade, of the Fourth Division, will take the road the train has moved out on, and act as rear guard to the trains. He will move at same time as Second Division moves.

Fourth. Ninth Illinois will move in rear of Fuller's brigade.

Fifth. First Alabama Cavalry will move with trains. Destination of all troops is at or near Burnt Church, on the Acworth or Allatoona road, near Burnt Church cross-roads.

II. This command will move on the road to Acworth to-morrow, Brigadier-General Veatch taking the advance and following closely the Fifteenth Corps, which moves at 6 a.m.

General Sweeny will follow, keeping one brigade in the rear of the trains of both corps as a rear guard.

By order of Brigadier General G. M. Dodge:

J. W. BARNES,

Assistant Adjutant-General.