Brig. Gen. HENRY LITTLE, Commanding Division:
GENERAL: You will order Capt. E. J. Sanders to move northward immediately with his company and Captain Mann's Partisan Rangers for the purpose of ascertaining the position and movements of the enemy between the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Tuscumbia. These companies are now at Bay Springs. You may attach Lieutenant Wells' scouts to the command if you see fit to do so. Captain Sanders will report daily to these headquarters through you.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
THOS. L. SNEAD,
Chief of Staff.
OR Ser. 1, V. 17, pt. 2, p. 689
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HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY BRIGADE,
La Grange, Tenn., September 5, 1862.
[Maj. THOMAS L. SNEAD :]
MAJOR: I send this by Captain Pryor, who has been serving with me during a part of my expedition. He was on leave, and knowing the country well, I took the liberty of keeping him over his time. My command is at this place and on the railroad, 7 miles south of Grand Junction. I am ready for any service. General Villepigue's command is at Holly Springs. General Van Dorn is to be here on Tuesday; General Breckinridge on Sunday. He has selected an encampment 16 miles north of Holly Springs. The Federals keep close in to Bolivar. I think of moving over toward Salem and Ripley, and will communicate with you from there. I will send a full report of my expedition in a day or two. It has been all that I could have desired. Excuse my delay in making report.
I am, yours, with respect,
FRANK C. ARMSTRONG,
Brigadier-General.
P. S.--Can you not send Captain Sanders' company to report to me at Ripley
OR Ser. 1, V. 17, pt. 2, p. 693
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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE WEST,
Iuka, Miss., September 19, 1862.
General ARMSTRONG:
GENERAL: General Hebert has been ordered to move with his brigade upon Iuka and Bay Springs road (the one by which we entered Iuka), upon which the enemy are advancing and driving in our pickets. The major-general commanding directs you to detail two or three squadrons, to report forthwith to General Hebert as part of his command, and he suggests that you detail for that purpose Roddey's and Sanders' commands, though this merely a suggestion and not an order.
I am, &c.,
THOS. L. SNEAD,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
OR Ser. 1, V. 17, pt. 2, p. 708
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he following is a list of cavalry to go with General Van Dorn, and the number in each regiment and battalion, as obtained from him:
First Mississippi 275
Fourth Mississippi 390
Twenty,eighth Mississippi 625
Sanders battalion 92
Balch's battalion 234
Second Mississippi Battalion (eight companies) [Second Missouri?] 246
First Tennessee 430
Third Arkansas 354
Ballentine's battalion 259
One company of Jackson's regiment 80
Baxter's battalion 120
Third, Sixth, and Ninth Texas and Whitfield's Legion 1,500
Body guard 50
Total 4,655
Roddey's command 1,400
Regiment from Montgomery 700
Adams' regiment (on Mississippi River) 700
Total to go with General Van Dorn 7,455
OR Ser. 1, V. 17, pt. 2, p. 844
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ALTERNATE DESIGNATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONS MENTIONED IN THIS VOLUME.(*)
Sanders' (E. J.) Cavalry. See Tennessee Troops, Confederate.