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Re: Wirt Adams' Cavalry command, March-April 1865

I am not certain that Moorman's battalion (24th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion) was present in the March-April 1865 movements of Adams' command into Alabama. The note in Rowland's account of Wood's Cavalry that Col. Moorman wrote to Adams about the time of Taylor's surrender about the fight at Pleasant Ridge-King's Bridge would suggest that his unit was present at that action. In May 1865 Col. Moorman was in Canton, Miss.

Was Moorman's battalion paroled at Gainesville? Where did Col. Moorman receive his parole? Where did your ancestor receive his parole? Do you have letters/diary entries of his which touch on this period?

Records of Confederate casualties for April 6, 1865, which Rowland places at 9 killed, 25 wounded (and one captured, not mentioned in Rowland), are sparce to say the least. Little beyond Federate POW records is to be found in Confederate CMSRs for 1865. I really don't know from which units Adams' lossed came from, except for two officers (one killed, one captured) and two enlisted KIA from Wood's Confederate Cav. Primary sources indicate that only Mississippi troops were engaged with Croxton's force on April 6, 1865; none of Scott's Louisiana cavalry were in combat that date.

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