Official Records - 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV

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Series 1, vol 47, Part 2 (Columbia)

Page 158

SPECIAL ORDERS,

HDQRS. DEPT. AND ARMY OF THE TENN., Numbers 4.

Beaufort, S. C., January 29, 1865.

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IV. The steamer Savannah having, in accordance with orders, arrived at this post with several hundred recruits, &c., for the army under General Sherman, is ordered to proceed with same to Blair's landing, on the Pocotaligo River, where they will, under the direction of Captain Lomax, First Alabama Cavalry, in charge, be disembarked and turned over for distribution to their several commands. Captain Low, assistant quartermaster, will give the commander of the Savannah orders to this effect.

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By order of Major General O. O. Howard:

SAML. L. TAGGART,

Assistant Adjutant-General.