SAINT LOUIS, November 24, 1864.

Maj. E. B. BEAUMONT,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Cavalry Corps :

Colonel Winslow's command is on the way from Springfield; will arrive here in about a week. I leave here for Memphis to-day. Colonel Winslow goes with me, leaving Lieutenant-Colonel Benteen, Tenth Missouri Cavalry, in command here. His address is 281 Franklin avenue.

HENRY E. NOYES,
Lieutenant and Aide.de. Camp.
ORV45, Pt. 1, p.1023

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HEADQUARTERS FOURTH DIVISION, CAVALRY CORPS,
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Memphis, Tenn., November 30, 1864.

Capt. E. B. BEAUMONT,
Assistant Adjutant-General:

CAPTAIN: Captain Woodward, my assistant adjutant-general, wrote you a few days since in my name. I authorized him to do so, thinking I should be in Memphis the next day, but I went to Springfield, Ill., to confer with the Adjutant-General with regard to filling up the Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Illinois Cavalry Regiments. I arrived here this morning; did not see Lieutenant Noyes, of the general's staff, as he had left the afternoon before. It has finally been decided to send Winslow's brigade to Nashville, leaving the balance of the division here. This brigade consists of the Third and Fourth Iowa and Tenth Missouri, with two lifted pieces. They are splendid troops; the best in the division. General Washburn declines issuing the order until General Dana arrives. He is expected here on Saturday. As soon as the order is issued, I will use all possible dispatch in getting them trans ported to Nashville. As soon as they are under way, I will report to you in person. I have this morning received a dispatch from Lieuten-ant-Colonel Benteen, commanding the detachment of the brigade in Missouri. He has just arrived in Saint Louis, where he has orders to refit and embark for Nashville. I have sent him word to telegraph me the day he will be ready to leave Saint Louis, and I will endeavor to have the detachments from here and from Saint Louis meet at Cairo and proceed to Nashville together.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

B. H. GRIERSON,
Brigadier-General.
OR V45 Pt.1, pp. 1179/80

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SAINT LOUIS, MO., December 3, 1864.

Major-General WILSON:

Cannot leave Saint Louis before 7th instant; have marched 1,800 miles; command was broken down; did not get a horse to Saint Louis; obtained 1,100 horses here, and other equipments. Colonel Winslow's detachment will leave Memphis on 6th instant.

F. W. BENTEEN,
Colonel
OR V45 Pt.2, p. 36

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HDQRS. SECOND BRIG., FOURTH DIV., CAVALRY CORPS,
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Cairo, Ill., December 10, 1864.

Lieutenant-Colonel BEAUMONT,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Cavalry Corps, Nashville, Tenn.:

COLONEL: I came here on business connected with my command. The detachments of the Third and Fourth Iowa and Tenth Missouri Regiments Cavalry are en route from Saint Louis to Clarksville, Tenn. Portions of above regiments will reach here to-night and to-morrow. I shall go to Memphis to-night, to make every effort to have the detachments there ordered and forwarded to Nashville. I had got orders once for this from Major-General Washburn, but Major-General Dana has thus far delayed movements, thinking it not unlikely that the portions in Missouri might join him at Memphis. Major-General Halleck has, however, definitely settled that matter. I have left Colonel Benteen full instructions to push for Nashville from Clarksville.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. F. WINSLOW,
Colonel Fourth Iowa Cavalry, Commanding Brigade.
OR V45 Pt. 2, pp. 136/7

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NASHVILLE, TENN., December 10, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER,
Smithland :

Will you please hand to Colonel Benteen, commanding brigade of cavalry, now on board transports bound for this place, the accompanying dispatch, and at the same time say to him that transports can ascend the Cumberland as far as Clarksville without danger. He will, however, await at Smithland the arrival of gun-boats to convoy him to Clarksville, where he will disembark his command and march to this place on the north bank of the river. Acknowledge receipt.

GEO. H. THOMAS,
Major-General, U.S. Volunteers, Commanding.

[Inclosure. ]

NASHVILLE, December 10, 1864.

Colonel BENTEEN,
Commanding Cavalry Brigade, Smithland :

Await at Smithland the arrival of gunboats, which, Admiral Lee informs me, will be there to convoy your transports to Clarksville. As soon as they arrive you will at once proceed to Clarksville, where you will disembark and march on the north bank of the river to this place. Should you learn of the presence of any force of the enemy between the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers when you arrive at Clarksville, move your brigade against it and drive it off, unless you are satisfied he is too strong for you, in which case you will report the fact by telegraph to me at this place.

GEO. H. THOMAS,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding
OR V45, Pt. 2, p. 141

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HEADQUARTERS SECOND BRIGADE, FOURTH DIVISION
Memphis, Tenn., December 15, 1864.

Lieutenant NOYES,
Second U. S. Cavalry, Nashville, Tenn.

....... Lieutenant-Colonel Benteen has met with a very serious accident on the Maria, and I'm afraid some of his command will be delayed by the ice in Mississippi River. I do not know the cause of his delay, not having had any communication from him since the 3d instant. ....

E. F. WINSLOW,
Colonel Fourth Iowa Cavalry, Commanding.
OR V45, Pt. 2 p.204

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Perry A. Newell

Residence Birmingham IA; 21 years old.
Enlisted on 8/28/1861 as a Bugler.
On 9/10/1861 he mustered into "H" Co. IA 3rd Cavalry
He Re-enlisted on 2/1/1864
He was Killed on 12/11/1864 at Carondelet, MO
(Killed by explosion of steamer 'Maria")
Promotions:
* Qtr Master Serg 1/1/1864 (Company QM Sergt)
Other Information:
born in Indiana

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