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

George:

Yes, Forrest's corps was scattered throughout Sumter County in April 1865.

Primary sources indicate that Wood's Confederate Cavalry, of Adams' brigade/command, was camped at Sumterville as late as April 30, 1865. Availibility of forage for horses at that location had occationed their movement to that place. Likely that is where those men received their paroles. Evidently Forrest's headquarters, according to the same sources, was in Gainesville as late as the same dates.

Paroles for men in various units might/should indicate the location at which these instruments were executed.

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