Letter
Theodore Read to Lieutenant-Colonel READ, March 24, 1865
HEADQUARTERS OAVALRY,
March 24, 1865.
March 24, 1865. Lieutenant-Colonel READ, Assistant Adjutant-General: Has the general commanding any further instructions to give me with regard to the cavalry expedition other than those he gave me verbally ? R. S. MACKENZIE, Brigadier-General, Cavalry Division. In the Field, March 24, 1865—7.30 p.m. Brigadier-General MACKENZIE, Headquarters Cavalry Division : The major-general commanding has no further instructions to give you. Send back frequent couriers and keep up a constant communication between your forces by couriers. Theinfantry go to Long Bridge.
THEODORE READ,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Summary: Theodore Read instructs Brigadier-General Mackenzie to maintain constant courier communication during the cavalry expedition and notes no additional orders beyond previous verbal instructions.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 46, Part 1
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