7th Michigan Cavalry & 1st Cavalry Division

Item DOC-10583

Description

Original Civil War document written in period ink.


Headquarters, 1st Cavalry Division

January 10, 1865

Sir,

Brigadier General Gibbs, Commanding Division, directs that you take charge of the Division train to Stevenson’s Station tomorrow. An escort will report to you at these Headquarters at 7 a.m.. You will take it to the Reserve Brigade train, which is ordered to be in line on the pike about three fourths of a mile from these Headquarters at that hour and proceeding to Winchester, going the rest of the train on Market Street in W.

Very Respectfully Yours,

Horatio C. King
Captain, A.Q.M.
Chief Q.M.

Lieutenant D. McNaughton
Q.M.
7th Michigan Cavalry