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These two orders direct Col. Starnes 3rd Tenn. Cavalry and Huwald's Battery to report to N. B. Forrest mid August.

However, the 3rd Tenn. Cavalry is listed in the Order of Battle at Richmond, there is no indication of Huwald's Battery. I would guess Ramsey with the battery was at Richmond. Forrest is not listed at Richmond.

KNOXVILLE, TENN., August 4, 1862.

Brig. Gen. N. B. FORREST,
Comdg. First Cavalry Brigade, Middle Tennessee :

GENERAL: General Bragg having requested it, the major-general commanding directs that you remain in the section of country in which you are now operating. Starnes' regiment, Howard's battalion, and Huwald's mountain howitzer battery have been ordered to join you. Scott's brigade, consisting of his own and Lawton's regiments, have been ordered to Kingston. It is important that the order be obeyed promptly. They should already have reached there.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. F. BELTON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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KNOXVILLE, TENN., August 4, 1862.

Brig. Gen. N. B. FORREST,
Commanding First Cavalry Brigade:

GENERAL: The commanding general directs me to say that as General Bragg desires you to maintain yourself somewhere in the section of country where you now are, the order directing you to proceed with your command to Kingston has been countermanded. The regiments of Colonels Scott and Wharton have, however, been ordered to proceed to Kingston and should be there now. Colonel Howard's regiment of cavalry from Athens has been ordered to join you. Colonel Starnes' regiment of cavalry and Captain Huwald's howitzer battery, from General Stevenson's division, have also been ordered to join you. It will probably be two weeks before the latter two commands can reach you. Inclosed is a copy of the order reorganizing your brigade, the original of which has been already forwarded you. Colonel Crawford's regiment of cavalry from Georgia, which will report in a few days, will be assigned to your command. The commanding general announces with pleasure that your commission as brigadier-general was some time since received but has not been forwarded, owing to the absence of a safe opportunity. It will be sent so soon as such an opportunity offers.

A duplicate of all important information should be furnished by you to General Bragg at Chattanooga.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. CUNNINGHAM,
Lieutenant and Acting Aide-de-Camp
OR V16, P. 2, pp. 743/4

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Huwald's-Ramsey's TN Light Artillery Batty
Organized: Knoxville, TN on 6/21/61

D. Breck Ramsey, appointed Jr. 1st Lieutenant in Lieutenant Gustave A. Huwald's Howitzer Battery of Horse Artillery, attached to 3rd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment* June 21, 1862 at Knoxville, Tenn., went into service into the field with only 10 men July 1, 1862, detailed Jan/Feb 1863 as Adjutant, Captain Scott, Chief of Artillery, Wheeler Corps., advanced to rank of Captain, n.d., admitted Floyd House Hospital, Macon, Ga., August 1864, "gunshot wound over dorsal region of spinal column, superficial making track of several in. in length,"

* The battery subsequently became Captain Ramsey's Battery Tennessee Artillery

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