Sunday, November 10, 2024

The system of roving or independent scouts he regards as detrimental

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A scouting party

Headquarters Military Division of the West, Tuscumbia, November 10, 1864. General J. B. Hood, …………….Commanding, &c.: General: General Beauregard instructs me to say that he desires you would instruct Generals Wheeler and Roddey to furnish as early as practicable the number of scouts they have employed, where operating, how employed, organized, and supplied with provisions, [...]

Civil War Irregulars: Rangers, Scouts, Guerrillas, and Others, War of the Rebellion: from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies and Navies