Saturday, August 2, 2014

General John Bell Hood to Lieutenant-General Richard Taylor, October 20, 1864

OCTOBER 20, 1864.
Lieutenant-General TAYLOR,
Mobile:

I will move to-morrow for Guntersville, on the Tennessee. Please place all the garrison you can at Corinth, and have the railroad iron from there to Memphis taken up as close as possible to Memphis. I have not yet seen General Beauregard. Give me all the assistance you can to get my supplies to Tuscumbia.

J. B. HOOD,
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. 835; John Bell Hood, Advance and Retreat, p. 268

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