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Henry --

There is no Eaglesville in Alabama, but (as you know) there is a Gaylesville. Somehow the typesetter for CMH volume 7 coverted Gaylesville into E-Gaylesville.

Here's one of the reports you're using --
On the Gaylesville Road, October 19, 1864, 7 p. m.

Brig. Gen. J. D. Cox,
Commanding, &c.:
GENERAL:

After leaving Melville Post-Office a mile I struck Wheelers rear guard and have been skirmishing ever since. Melville Post-Office is thirteen miles from Gaylesville and I got to within five miles by dark. The roads were obstructed and I had to fight dismounted for seven miles. Wheelers cavalry has been pressing on this road all day and some little infantry. Rumor says that the rebel infantry left Gaylesville this a.m., but I could not learn their route. If you will send a brigade up to my camp to-morrow I will leave all pack animals, & c., and move on early in the morning. The road to Rome crosses the river where I am in camp. I send you some couriers to communicate with me.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
K. GARRARD, Brigadier-General, Commanding Division.

Based on Federal reports, three roads led west from Melville. This hamlet existed at the intersection of the Holland Road and Old Silverhill Road on Clark Creek, about six miles southwest of Summerville on Georgia 100.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=375&dat=20040901&id=IP4vAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2jsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3264,317950

Garrard's report should account for Wheeler's skirmishes at Chattooga River GA and (E)Gaylesville AL, October 19th. If it is accurate, his men would have been camped near present-day Alabama 68 at Cedar Springs.

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