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Re: Scott's Louisiana Cavalry Brigaede

Here is a summary of a letter from a soldier involved in the engagement. The full letter might contain a little more information than I put in my note.

1st Sergeant Stephen D. Ellis, Company A, 18th Louisiana Cavalry Battalion, to Brother, from Camp at Columbus, Miss., April 9, 1865:

The command had arrived from West Point. It had been involved in a skirmish in Pickens County, Alabama, where it lost 7 or 8 men killed and 15 to 20 wounded. The Union forces lost about the same. From 35 to 40 Union troops and from 50 to 60 blacks had been captured. Adams' and Scott's brigades had been engaged. The fight could have gone better if Scott had been present, but he was in Meridian. Colonel Fred N. Ogden had been commanding the brigade since it left Macon.

Source: Ellis Family Papers, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection, Special Collections, Louisiana State University Library

Scott's Brigade consisted of the 1st and 3rd (Wingfield's) Louisiana Cavalry regiments, Ogden's Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, and the 18th Louisiana Cavalry Battalion.

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