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finally got across Tennessee, there was only about twelve thousand of their infantry left. General Wilson, with the First, Second, and Third Divisions of the Cavalry Corps, and three batteries of artillery, about fifteen thousand men, crossed the Tennessee river on the 11th day of March, 1865, at Chickasaw, Alabama, arriving at Macon, Georgia, April 20, 1865.

While resting quietly in camp about two miles north of the city on the evening of May 6, 1865, I received orders to report at once to headquarters. I mounted my horse rode over to headquarters as ordered. I there found General J. G. Croxton in command, in the absence General McCook. The General informed me that it was reported at Jeff. Davis was in South Carolina, making his way south into

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