No. 254. Report of Brig. Gen. James R. Chalmers, C. S. Army, commanding Cavalry Division, of operations November 17-December 27, 1864. 1 ...

Colonel McNairy started home on a furlough on account of ill health, leaving Captain Allison in command of the battalion. Allison received...

Two companies of Brazelton's Battalion, fifty men from McNairy's, and about five companies of infantry went about ten miles up the s...

Forty-seven of our battalion went sixteen miles down the south bank of the river to guard some wagons that were hauling forage to the river ...

HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH BRIGADE,           Columbia, Ky., January 7, 1862. General THOMAS: SIR: A rebel steamboat passed Burkesville yesterd...

HDQRS. ELEVENTH BRIGADE, U.S. VOLUNTEERS,           Columbia, Ky., December 12, 1861. Brigadier-General THOMAS,           Commanding First ...

Just before sunrise the enemy opened fire on us from the opposite side of the river. As we did not wish to have lead mixed with our breakfas...

General Zollicoffer threw over the first small cavalry picket at Mill Springs. Colonel J. M. Connell set out from Somerset early that morn...

Our commander commenced throwing his main force to the north side of the river. His cavalry pickets captured, six miles north of the river, ...

As Zollicoffer had by that afternoon thrown a good portion of his command to the north side of the river, he moved his headquarters from Mr....

BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, Mill Springs, Ky., December 2 , 1861 . SIR: Yesterday, with a small detachment of infantry and cavalry, I proceede...

CAMP GOGGIN, December 2, 1861. GENERAL: I arrived here yesterday, reconnoitered same day and today. This morning the enemy opened fire fr...

HEADQUARTERS, Somerset, December 6 , 1861 . Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS,           Commanding Eastern Division: GENERAL: The enemy have c...

Our battalion marched (about fourteen miles) from Camp McGinnis to within five miles of Albany, the county seat of Clinton County, Kentucky....

In the saddle early that morning, our battalion arrived at Jacksborough late in the afternoon (about twenty-two miles). Zollicoffer had left...

Setting out from Clinton, the First Battalion moved about fifteen miles and camped on the Wartburg road, in the north corner of Roane County...

KNOXVILLE, TENN., November 17, 1861. Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL, Bowling Green, Ky.: SIR: Having blockaded the roads over the mountains n...

BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Wartburg, one mile from Montgomery, November 20, 1861. Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL,           Assistant Adju...

BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Jamestown, Tenn., Nov . 22, 1861. General S. Cooper,           Adjutant and Inspector-General, Richmond: S...

McNairy's Battalion moved from Camp Buckner about four miles down the Cumberland River to Bald Hill. We were well pleased with the chang...