CAVE SPRING, October
10, 1864. – 8 a.m.
Brigadier-General JACKSON, Commanding Cavalry:
General Hood desires me to inform you that the pontoon at
Quinn's Ferry, on the Coosa River, will be taken up this evening, and you must
put on a line of couriers to that place to connect with a line on the other
side. They will meet at the ferry and must continue to keep some there or near
there to take dispatches over the line. Day after to-morrow (12th), unless you
are otherwise engaged, General Hood desires you will move on Rome and make
considerable of a demonstration from your side of the river, but be careful not
to fire into the town. Communicate fully and frequently about all movements of
the enemy.
A. P. MASON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
39, Part 2 (Serial No. 79), p. 811; John Bell Hood, Advance and
Retreat, p. 261
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