Scout Report

Panola, August 16, 1863.¹

General Chalmers:
Scout reports 5 miles south Oxford, 7 o’clock last night, about 1,700 cavalry passed Water Valley road toward Grenada.

THOS. HENDERSON,
Captain, &c.

1. War of the Rebellion: Serial 053 Page 0501 KY.,SW.VA.,TENN.,MISS.,N.ALA., AND N.GA. Chapter XLII.

The reports and dispatches of Henderson’s Cavalry Scouts: Unlike many of the independent or partisan Confederate groups, Henderson’s Cavalry Scouts routinely interfaced and worked with regular Confederate forces and some documentation of their activities was preserved in the Official Records. Captain Thomas Henderson and his brother, Samuel, also interacted with Confederate spies and agents such as Belle Edmondson.